- Western Digital shows off 4-TB drive. Nice!
- $99 iPhone will begin to erode the cachet of the device.
- PS-3 price drop expected.
- ABC News does yet another computer injury story.
- This Friday everything goes digital.
- Google going after enterprise users for Office apps.
- InfoWorld lists hardware Hall of Fame. Horrid list.
- Today’s show sponsored by Squarespace.com code word TECH
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Must be a slooow news day.
No cash, no cachet.
Love it. Microsoft tit, and google tit.
I would assume that WD’s 4Tb ‘drive’ is just a couple of 2Tb drives in an external RAID-type enclosure with iSCSI or some other high speed interface, ot an actual 4Tb single drive.
Big freaking deal. I’ve had something similar with 4 1Tb drives in a RAID5 array NAS box for a long time.
How to cut?
Tech 5 – the most important 5 minutes in history
“$99 iPhone will begin to erode the cachet of the device.”
Yeah, shame – now, all Apple will do is make more money.
Final Cut Pro’s days may be numbered.
The open source movement is finally wakening up to the need to a free, sophisticated video editing program.
See here:
http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page
And here:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/Muvy.html
What’s an Infoworld? 😉
#9 Nobody hold their breath. The first one hasn’t achieved alpha. The author describes his work as to make a simple editor and even names the name Final Cut Pro as what it won’t be like. The second is in linux-talk mode (which it might never leave) and requires nine other packages to be installed before it can be tested.
Concerning retro-hardware, surely an S-100 bus computer should be on the list. I nominate the Quasar Data Products (of Brecksville, Ohio) QDP-100. The case was metal and … mahogany.
Concerning LaserJets, the 1988 HP LJ II was a revelation and I was using mine until a few months ago when I gave it away (yes, somebody wanted it!) and replaced it with an HP 2605dn. A great machine. Both of them. And the LJ II had, for its day, great software / drivers, which is more than I can say for later HP printers. But the point is that if you’re listing great innovational hardware that passed the test of time, you don’t need to go any later than the LJ II.
And, without a doubt, the IBM Thinkpad 701C (butterfly keyboard, which they need in 2009, but nobody’s making one).