Patrick Havens on January 29th, 2008

I love Seagate. They just sent me a stack of terabyte drives and they aren’t even my sponsor anymore.
[Twitter / Scobleizer]
Companies love  advertising, even sometimes bad advertising.  But in this case, they are getting a lot of bang for their buck… Especially if Robert Scoble likes the drives.  And here I figured Western Digital would [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 17th, 2008

I just got this in my email:

 
Looking at that price and after reading all the great reviews on it. I almost want to run out and get one. But I already have a laptop that works fine and is great for traveling, and my ipod touch that goes everywhere with me (It seriously [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 8th, 2008

I got an OLPC XO-1 a few days ago in the mail as part of the give one, get one program. Hopefully some child out there is enjoying their new laptop–there’s a certain amount of opacity in the process so I have no idea even if this laptop went to some needy far-flung village in [...]

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For the past year or so, gamers have been in a tough spot. There have been options for those who want decent DirectX 9 performance, but newer games are more demanding and some of the affordable cards in the sub-$300 price range aren’t delivering great experiences anymore. Then there’s DirectX 10. DX10 games are [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 3rd, 2007

In time for the holidays, Verizon Wireless is launching a cell phone that looks a lot like the hottest phone so far this year: Apple Inc.’s iPhone.Like the iPhone, the LG Voyager features a large touch screen, a camera and extensive multimedia, Web browsing and e-mail capabilities.However, it one-ups the iPhone by folding open lengthwise [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 26th, 2007

Samsung SGHP52, what is it. It looks sexy enough to be my next phone, but there is little information. And to make the tease worse, so far the only news stated besides the fact I’ve quoted below is that there is no idea when it will be sold outside of South Korea.
The news is [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 25th, 2007

Now not all users of linux are using it because its cheap. Linux happens to be a good, stable, powerful operating system. Plus with it being OpenSource, its constantly updated, has a large variety of programs that are also free, and quite often you don’t have to worry about hardware compatibility.
That said, I’ve [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 22nd, 2007

“Your next computer will be a big ass table.”
[via Second Verse]
I want an iphone, and the Microsoft Surface does look interesting, but this video does make some valid points.

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Patrick Havens on May 31st, 2007

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has sent me one of the best gifts I have ever received! It is called “Surface.” It is a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch.In addition to thumbing through thousands of my favorite family photos, I can listen to my music collection watch videos, etc. My children have also had [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 17th, 2007

Ok… I think its in Brazil. The flag that is shown as the camera moves reminds me of Brazil, so correct me if I’m wrong. I find it interesting how quickly they are trying different things; surfing for info online, playing with the webcam, drawing a picture. I get the picture its [...]

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