You've done these two roundups in the wrong order
Blokes might be looking for inspiration this late, but the women will have got things organised ages ago.
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"Uncompressed hi-res audio files take up a lot space, but thankfully there’s 32GB of storage on-board"
WTF? 32GB is a pittiful amount of storage for high quality and/or uncompressed formats. Stick another zero on the end and we're starting to get somewhere. The robustness and silence of flash storage might be good, but capacity really needs to catch-up with aging hard disk based players (and even there I've spent several years waiting for a 320+GB version of the iPod classic).
True in this case you could theoreticaly use multiple micro-SD cards in a similar way to the old swapping of tapes, but they're just too small to really label with their contents (and rather loseable).
I really wanted to like this. The styling is a little too retro for my tastes, but its nice to see some proper connectors and physical controls (though I too have doubts about the slider) instead of the usual featureless black slab and touchscreen. Failure to be able to hold my music collection (even in mp3 format) without swapping fiddly little cards is a dealbreaker though.
ok, fair point. replace "rotating screen hinge" with "fancy screen attachment allowing tablet or laptop style uses". There's a handful of hybrid machines which blur boundaries (as there was with computer vs console distinction - e.g Amstrad's Megadrive/PC hybrid), but most machines fit into categories quite well. The main point was that including tablets as PCs makes no more sense than including consoles, and that for most machines the category is pretty clear - indeed as I pointed out above simple enough for a child to understand, its only pendantic adult arguments and edge cases that make it complicated.
True tablets are technically computers (and PCs in the non-IBM clone usage). But so are games consoles. Have we started including those as PCs too? Certainly we didn't count them as computers when I was a kid: Speccy, C64, ST etc. were clearly computers, Atari 2600, SNES and Megadrive were clearly consoles. Tablets as a 3rd category doesn't really seem any harder unless we're dealing with a rare example of an actual Tablet-PC complete with keyboard and fancy rotating screen hinge.
If so does this mean we could read the last one of the year, due on Friday 23rd early? Surely you're doing one last xmas themed one to round off the year and give your readers the xmas present they want. Ps post it a little earlier in the day than normal, we may well be heading to the pub once lunchtime arrives.
Gave you a thumbs up for the K-9 bit, K-9 is a computer on wheels. Daleks though are cyborgs and don't count.
Definately agree a selection of voices/personalities would be nice though. HAL would be an obvious choice. Moving away from TV/Films GlaDOS would be great too. I don't think I could stand the one from the Heart Of Gold (Eddie) though.
Even just matching the pixel density of laptop screens would be nice. Its slightly annoying that my 24" desktop screen doesn't have any more pixels than my 17" laptop screen.
As for what I'm going to do with that resolution? Better display of those multi-megapixel images my camera has been producing for years. It'll also help bring MS's ribbon UI back down to a sensible proportion of the screen size. On the downside I'll need a new graphics card for Crysis.
>Secondly, “I can’t tell you what new things will come out of the completion of the Standard >Model, but they will be amazing.”
>Yes, just as soon as all of us can carry a TeV scale accelerator in our pockets
Why does it have to fit in a pocket to be useful? Unlike many articles around here this one isn't aimed at those who think technology==mobile phone.
I'd be happy with (for example, not saying its what we'll get or that its even possible) a wormhole generator that took about the same amount of space as Heathrow airport but let you go on holiday to Mars instead of Spain (with an added benefit of not having to eat the inflight 'meal').
...if the screen has a downstream port and the hub doesn't then whats to stop you putting the hub on the end of the chain after the monitor? The lack of a downstream port is surely only an issue if you have 2 devices without it? Here we're talking about only 2 devices, one of which has a pass-through port, so put it in the middle.
Alternatively if its just a lack of usb ports then I've got a feeling a standard USB hub that plugs into a USB port will be cheaper than a specialist USB hub that plugs into a thunderbolt port.