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2006-04-18
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The problem is people expect this to be fully read out of the box. If they are expecting a "laptop", since when did they get all their software pre-installed?
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2006-04-18
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2006-04-18
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The review (i.e., reviewer) at issue here doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, and neither does the newspaper (The Washington Post) as a source for technology information. For my money the newspaper shouldn't even try to pass off this kind of material as either accurate or useful. The days are over when anybody can take the paper seriously any longer even when it comes to current events and opinion. The paper itself is a dying institution. Stick a fork in it - it's done.
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2006-04-18
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@ Eugene, Oregon
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The average joe however is going to look at Washington Post, NY-Times, C|Net, etc.
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2006-04-18
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2006-04-18
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Yeah, those were really unfair reviews to Newtons. There was no need to insult the Newton like that.
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2006-04-19
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Sorry, I disagree.
The Newton was a complete disaster. It had a great concept, but was poorly designed and totally unreliable. The critical reviews were dead-on accurate. The Newton was the worst chapter in Apple's history and set back the PDA industry back years. Kudos to Palm/USR/3Com for overcoming the bad example that the Newton was.
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2006-04-19
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Sorry, I disagree.
The Newton was a complete disaster. It had a great concept, but was poorly designed and totally unreliable. The critical reviews were dead-on accurate. The Newton was the worst chapter in Apple's history and set back the PDA industry back years. Kudos to Palm/USR/3Com for overcoming the bad example that the Newton was.
It is still VERY true that, by and large, tech reviews are not to be trusted. Too many of these writers fancy themselves as king-makers. I don't understand why they just don't all become sports writers, where this type of attitude is accepted and to be expected.
Case in point - the 770. Go to the various websites (Cnet included) where you can read user reports. Seems to me that users are singing a different tune from most reviews.
This, of course, is just my opinion.
This, of course, is just my opinion.
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2006-04-20
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With that said, it sure does seem like the 770 is being evaluated against current day laptops, which is definitely weird considering the price difference. Any laptop even remotely similar in form factor is going to be at least four times the price.
Nokia needs to either start positioning the 770 as a unique device or they'd better be ready to launch a completely distinct Maemo device sometime in the near future -- at this rate no one is going to take the 770 seriously. ...Not that anyone (except us) really seems to be taking it seriously now, of course.
* Note: I'm not advocating any of this software as being "good" by any stretch of the imagination. It's horrible software that was, unfortunately, widely adopted.