Tech and Amusing Stuff

……but I’m still not buying a Windows computer.

You can now walk into your local Best Buy and snatch one of those coveted Eee PCs, the only catch is that you will be getting XP no matter what (even though they show it running Xandros on their website). White and Black are the only colors available and $399 is the price to take one of these puppies home.

You can still buy the Eee PC with Linux and different colors at Amazon

Via Engadget

“Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site last tonight.

The final version of Windows XP SP3 remains slated for delivery sometime in the first half of 2008, the spokeswoman said. She also warned off casual users from trying the preview. “As this is a release candidate, we strongly encourage only those who are comfortable installing prerelease code to download Windows XP SP3,” she said.”

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PC World has boldly declared Vista #1 in their Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007.

“It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring–like more efficient file and communications systems–got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised. Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.”

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“In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone.”

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