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CrashingOut
01/01/09

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I think you guys totally missed the mark on your netbook predictions, I think you're ignoring a great deal of other improvements. What I'm seeing is a dual core atom, that is also smaller, more energy efficient, cheaper, with higher speed ram, cheaper SSD's of larger capacity, 32 gig microsdhc readers with hopefully readyboost and ssd-like implementation,longer battery life(carbon nanotube matrices?), brighter-cheaper-clearer-more-energy-efficient-OLED everything(?), lighter weight, and most importantly, AFFORDABILITY. They are pumping these things out, and mass economy which is going to be the primary concern next year what with the economy going to hell and laptops outselling desktops, they want to make these!

on a side note, last night I had a dream. It was the future. A lot of neat things happened but at one point in this future dream, I woke up and instead of putting my 2008 HTC phone in my pocket, I put a small penlike device into my shirt pocket, unclipped a small chip with a stickyness provided by nanohooks(a la a gecko's feet) and put it in my ear, while I put a small rectangular chip the size of a grain of rice on my lower left part of my neck, as a marrow-transducing mic, just like the silent mics in use by operatives. Then, I put in my pocket this clamshell that was like a minute laptop, powered by an Intel Fission processor, that had 4 physical cores, but 64 virtual cores on a 4 nm process chip that sucked power in from ambient radiative energy due to a fiber-based grid antenna that IS the chassis of this pocket-novel sized computer with a LED screen(LASER emitting diode). It had a small keyboard whose keys were flush, but with a flushness similar to the front of the HTC Diamond keys. However if you didn't want to dirty up the screen, the whole keyboard was a capacitative touch surface, with gestures. I wanted it the second I woke up...
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Mark Wilson
01/01/09

@CrashingOut: Good points, but a few things to keep in mind:

The current dual core Atom draws roughly twice the power of the single core Atom. That's bad news for battery life.

[www.pcpro.co.uk]

As for these systems getting cheaper, I think that the cellphone-like subsidies around netbooks with 3G technologies will do little to bring these systems down in price—especially when you account for the exorbitant subscription costs. Hopefully the market holds out for less expensive wireless plans.
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mathemology
01/01/09

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I'm still waiting on my flying car.
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frigg
01/01/09

@mathemology: "I'm still waiting on my flying car."

I'm confused.

Are you saying you are on your flying car, waiting, for something...

Or you're waiting delivery of your flying car?
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Anemovatis
01/01/09

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Macbook pro 17" with a quad-core and a bloody Matte screen.
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frigg
01/01/09

@Anemovatis: They would have to rename that the "Macbook Pro Pro."
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frigg
01/01/09

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A subsidiary of General Mills will introduce a new food product of unknown origin that will be nutritious, affordable, tasty, and green.
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

@frigg: Will Chuck Heston endorse it? Because I loved his ads for the I Love NY campaign in the late 60's.

Come to New York. Enjoy our sandy beaches and damned dirty apes. Just be careful - they can get a little chatty.
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frigg
01/01/09

@OMG! New Year!: Leaked packaging seems to list Charlton Heston as an ingredient. That can't be right. So I would expect some sort of endorsement.
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AkronZip
01/01/09

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The iPhone Pro would be tits!
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

@AkronZip: Would it be "the mouse's tits"?
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

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Oh I see what you guys are doing now! All the bad drive-the-share-price-down Apple rumors get posted by Jesus and all the good drive-the-share-price-up Apple rumors get posted onto the rest of the lineup. It's like a good-cop/bad-cop dichotomy.

Real convenient too. This way, when CNBC Senior Douchebag Jim Goldman goes off on a ragetastic conniption fit, Jesus can't be around to defend himself. Mark, you're better than that. As it says in the Bible in Letters 4:20 -

"Don't throw Jesus under the bus."
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Shooting a monkey is now a hate crime
01/01/09

@OMG! New Year!: Dude, let it go. You're becoming worse than Patriots' fans in the month of March.
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

@DeadhousepIants: That's still better than a Red Sox fan in February.
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frigg
01/01/09

@OMG! New Year!: As each one of Jesus' words in the SJ article was worth over a million dollars in the market, I'm reminded of a passage from the Book of Job in the Old Testament (also, coincidentally, 4:20) that might also apply:

"Be not afraid of the bus that deigns drive over you, for the one whose words move millions drives the bus. And for the one whose words are 'does this bus go downtown,' forget not thy transfer at 86th Street."
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Mona N.
01/01/09

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- iPhone with better ARM processor. I don't care about the formfactor (small, large, keyboard, no keyboard), memory, or the sucky camera: Speed my shit up, damnit.

- Something... well anything from Microsoft that isn't garbage. I am still waiting to be blown away.

- 3G, 4G, I don't care. Just make your networks reliable, damnit.

- No Zune phone (yet)
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

@Mona N.: I actually kind of like the camera in the iPhone. I've been surprised at the general decency of the photos that I can just quickly snap.

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Homerjay is utterly alone.
01/01/09

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" blazing transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps (moving a 25GB file in under a minute)."

I predict that in 5 years we're going to look back on that line and laugh.
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Mark Wilson
01/01/09

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: Haha, yes. I was thinking that as I wrote it.
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Nintenboy01
01/01/09

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: Then again, USB 2.0 only came into existence in 2002, so by 2014 we'll likely still be using USB 3.0.
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HawaiianActor
01/01/09

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: i had the same thoughts! it reminds me of a rerun of Friends that was on the other(ish) day where Chandler gets a new laptop:

"Check out this awesome laptop. 12 megs of RAM; 500 megs of
hard drive; and 28 kilobits per second modem."

granted that was like, 10+ years ago, but it mademe laugh!
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frigg
01/01/09

@Nintenboy01: Except the rate at which speeds are accelerating is itself accelerating.
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shinchan
01/01/09

@homerjay wants Boston Legal back!: There's still no consumer device that can actually handle those speeds though.
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
01/01/09

@shinchan: Yeah, thats why I said in 5 years and not right now.
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Cesare Coscia
01/01/09

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I'm gonna have to agree with the poster above. I cannot see another iphone being released this year. The price of the new one is very low and there is still demand for it, I feel they can keep riding the train for the year.
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D.E.P.C.
01/01/09

@Cesare Coscia: I think they'll update storage once 32GB NAND chips begin production.
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frigg
01/01/09

@D.E.P.C.: Yes... THERE WILL BE A NEW iPHONE!!!

(and I will upgrade to it... 32GB would be nice).
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Smartypantsdance
01/01/09

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I agree with everything except the new iPhone. I think that there won't be a new iPhone this year. I am not sure, it is just my personal opinion.

And the G1 lets Dev's do alot of things, but the design of the G1 is...crappy. It should have been a fullscreen phone, that has multitouch etc, kind of like the iPhone...
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Mona N.
01/01/09

@iGizdude: I hope they improve the innards. That's it. That's all I ask for.
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OMG! Ponies!
01/01/09

@iGizdude: If I had to bet on it, I'd put even money on a new iPhone at the beginning of June 2009. That's when the 2 year contracts from the original iPhone expire.

Both AT&T and Apple have an interest in keeping the iPhone at the top of the cellphone heap.
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Fermo
01/01/09

@iGizdude:

The G1 CAN do multi touch, do a quick Google search. Besides there are to many iclones around these days, there has to be innovation from someone.
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Keen314
01/01/09

@Mona N.: All I want is better battery life. I have the original iPhone, and put off buying a 3G, opting to wait for this coming year's release.
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frigg
01/01/09

@Keen314: Same. A jump to 32 GB would be enough for me to upgrade.

There's no way Apple isn't releasing a new iPhone in 2009.
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Smartypantsdance
01/01/09

@Fermo: Excuse me if I say that full keyboard is stupid. No offense, but the G1 would look WAY better if instead of a full keyboard, it had a FULL touchscreen with a virtual keyboard and it was thinner and straight. Then it would be acceptable to have buttons and a trackball. That would be a iPhone killer, combining the fact that G1 developers have more space and Paid apps are coming soon...

Just my personal opinion. I am sorry if I sound like I am bashing man...
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frigg
01/01/09

@iGizdude: I always figured the G1 is an inside joke, like they went out of their way to make it ugly on purpose, to give developers something to play with in a public beta while not tempting too many customers. If it didn't have a pull-out keyboard, they would probably have given it a napkin ring and key-holder, just to make sure enough customers wouldn't buy it. Yet.
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David Woller
01/01/09

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I was slightly confused when I first started reading this, I thought it was talking about the best gadgets of '08...
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HawaiianActor
01/01/09

@David Woller: i could see how you would think that with it saying "Best to come in 2009" as the title, and "predictions for the best gadgets of 2009" in the first full sentence...

okay, i am done being a dick. for now. i am tired and cranky because i had to be here at work all early after a night of drinking, can you ever forgive me David Woller?
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