Black and white are neutral shades, not colors. Only the reds, purples, and blues on thinkpads qualify as colors.
A thinkpad running AMD, and particularly a thinkpad with that nasty excuse for a keyboard leave me less than enthused. Couldn't they have kept the awesome keyboard?
Of all the things they could've screwed up, why'd they fuck with the KEYBOARD?
I do believe I see my top choice over all netbooks in existence. A lot of people don't like the nub, but I think it's perfect for something like a netbook, where the trackpads are usually small and sucky as hell compared to regular full-size laptops.
I've mentioned my affinity for the Thinkpad aesthetic before but I think it bears repeating that I find them to be industrially lovely.
Dear Sony,
I don't care about the color of my stupid PSP Go. Will you be developing small prosthetic hands for people so they can play this dumb thing without cramping? My dad thinks I'm ungrateful because I don't use it, and my mom thinks my hand cramps are because of... well, that's not important.
In summation, Sony, please stop fucking shit up like this. Bring me smaller hands, or add a second analog stick to the original PSP. What the fuck is wrong with you?
@met2art: I wholeheatedly second that motion! Sony how fucking small do you think my hands are? And why the hell did you dumbasses make the screen SMALLER? #pspgo
ok lets take a step back for a second and rethink things real quick.
What happened when the psp was released..
"o man, this thing is so big! i can fit it in my pocket!"
or the original xbox controller..
I mean in all honesty, it isnt that bad. The shoulder buttons need to worked on but aside from that, they did exactly what people yelled at them about.
also, if you have trouble with your pspgo then i fear how bad it must be to use a cell phone... #pspgo
@jomama22: "if you have trouble with your pspgo then i fear how bad it must be to use a cell phone..."
The difference being, I don't try to twitch dial my phone by attempting to press several buttons rapidly, at once, while simultaneously manipulating a D-pad that's smaller than my thumb.
Good point, though, in regards to people never being happy about the siz eof their devices. It's a tough metric to calculate. Can't please everyone, I guess. I thought the original PSP was a nice compromise between portability and capability. #pspgo
I like the greys since they are as close to stainless steel as they have. I love stainless steel; so shiney, so clean, so damn near perfect for everything. #pspgo
@Curves: While I have no interest in a PSPgo at all, (regardless of color) I must concur, with all due haste, that a stainless steel finish (brushed!) is just epicly awesome. I'm hardpressed to think of many things that wouldn't benefit from such a magnificent and stately exterior treatment.
How about Second-Analog-Stick Blue? Or Open-Source-Support Green? Maybe even Better-Codec-Support Red? No? None of those? Well then I guess we'll just stick with Product-Misfire Black, and Untouched-Product White. #pspgo
Ill take piano black. Black is classic. The coral looks tacky.
Bright red screams 'steal me' when its accidentally left in the car. Ocean blue looks cheap.
Pearl white is okay but my fat sausage fingers will smudge it.
Turquoise - lol
As for pink, I can off hand count 6 people i know who would love it in pink. ( one of them will marry it if it was pink and had Hello Kitty on it)
It says at the end to send email to Mark Wilson? Do i email him which color i like? #pspgo
@franco1975: "It says at the end to send email to Mark Wilson? Do i email him which color i like?"
That's just part of thew new layout for Giz, to remind us to write to the editors. Apparently their daily volume of rage-fuled fanboy hate-mail, unsettling illicit proposals, and miscellaneous "yeah, me too" email was very low, hence the new format. That's my guess.
Oh, and maybe we have the same friend... pink with Hello Kitty? Yeah, she'd be all over that. When I'm looking to buy her a gift I occasionally feel creepy standing in the kinds of aisles and sections that harbor such items. It's just not natural. #pspgo
Cojo21 is right. MCV article states that "The device should cost under £50 when sold solo. One publishing source says Microsoft is “trying to get as close as possible to ‘impulse buy’”. Another even says the camera could even retail for just £30."
At £50 thats about $100.
Mr. Wilson, you gotta convert pounds to dollars, son.
@davidmorales01: Pounds sterling do not always convert equally to USD. Not only are price points different in different nations, but there are different tariffs and import taxes. For example, the Nikons D300 is $1,574.95 or £1,094.28 (was £1,546.76) and 32GB iPod Touch is $279.95 or £205.99. I could go on, but I think I've made my point. #projectnatal
@MisterWho's Mystery Meat: The profit margin will be smaller on the Natal, but more units are expected to be sold. That makes perfect sense to me. If you really care about playing online, you're playing wired, not wireless. #projectnatal
@Nathan Obbards: Not necessarily true. I know a lot of people, myself included, that care about games and play wirelessly with no issues at all. Sometimes running ethernet isn't an option, (Or at least not a cost effective option) #projectnatal
@Nathan Obbards: The day my wife is ok with me running another (unsightly) wire up and down the walls of our apartment is the day I will give your comment some credence.
However you do make a valid point about profit. Natal is supposed to be provide incentive to go out and buy more games. #projectnatal
@MisterWho's Mystery Meat: I'm sorry your wife won't allow that. If my technological yearnings were hindered by an SO, I'd be sad. singlehood has thusly served me well. #projectnatal
@incubushead: Yea. But a wireless adapter and a 120 gb hd don't sell the console.
HYPOTHETICALLY:
If they lose $50 per Natal, that sounds like it hurts, especially x 5 million.
But, when you factor in the fact that the wireless adapter is ~$75 profit, and a 120gb HD is ~$100 profit, they would still be in pretty damn good financial shape all things considered.
Now...that really applies better for a console closer to launch--at this point, a large percentage of the people who ever planned on getting a 360 have gotten one, I'd imagine. But even so, those people who haven't bought one, they're going to need that wireless adapter and/or hard drive.
MS - $NATAL + ($WIFI | $HD)
-$50 + ($75 -$150) = $25-100 profit. And that's not including the games and other accessories.
Smart plan. Though I still wouldn't buy a 360--waste of $ to have both PS3 and 360 in my opinion. (No offense to anyone who owns both. It just doesn't work for me financially--paying off college loans at my first full-time job--AKA not enough money--and all) #projectnatal
@TuxBobble: Plus they also get licensing money from every game sale. Like the console itself, the Natal hardware will be subsidized by the games that are sold for it. WiFi and HD addons are pure accessories that don't drive new game sales, so you just get a tidy markup.
Lastly, Natal sounds - hardware wise - pretty simple. A couple of cameras, some microphones and an embedded processor. Most of what makes Natal lies in the firmware, and that doesn't cost a penny to replicate. #projectnatal
Perhaps Alfonso Ribeiro should market a Breakin' and poppin' game for the Natal: Get in shape and pick chicks with your hot moves! $100, slippery mat included. #projectnatal
So why would the UK reps be talking in dollars? More likely it's 50-80 pounds... or $100-160. Which sounds more like the realistic range to me. #projectnatal
@Cojo21: Subtract import tax and tariffs that are levied against the product when it is brought into the UK, subtract the fact that there is typically a 20-40% (sometimes even 100%) price difference in electronics prices between the US and the UK once currency conversions are accounted for and I think that a $60-100 price point is well within reason. #projectnatal
11/19/09
A thinkpad running AMD, and particularly a thinkpad with that nasty excuse for a keyboard leave me less than enthused. Couldn't they have kept the awesome keyboard?
Of all the things they could've screwed up, why'd they fuck with the KEYBOARD?
11/19/09
X100E leak: 11" frame, trackpoint, trackpad.... + colors + chiclet keyboard.
fake... though I will admit it looks like a nice mid-level netbook competitor if it comes in at under $500 compared to the rest of the crap out there.
11/18/09
I've mentioned my affinity for the Thinkpad aesthetic before but I think it bears repeating that I find them to be industrially lovely.
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I only read 320GB HDD max, not 500GB. But who's nitpicking, I'm just glad to see it comes with the Trackpoint StylePointer mouse.
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I don't care about the color of my stupid PSP Go. Will you be developing small prosthetic hands for people so they can play this dumb thing without cramping? My dad thinks I'm ungrateful because I don't use it, and my mom thinks my hand cramps are because of... well, that's not important.
In summation, Sony, please stop fucking shit up like this. Bring me smaller hands, or add a second analog stick to the original PSP. What the fuck is wrong with you?
kthxbai #pspgo
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ok lets take a step back for a second and rethink things real quick.
What happened when the psp was released..
"o man, this thing is so big! i can fit it in my pocket!"
or the original xbox controller..
I mean in all honesty, it isnt that bad. The shoulder buttons need to worked on but aside from that, they did exactly what people yelled at them about.
also, if you have trouble with your pspgo then i fear how bad it must be to use a cell phone... #pspgo
11/12/09
The difference being, I don't try to twitch dial my phone by attempting to press several buttons rapidly, at once, while simultaneously manipulating a D-pad that's smaller than my thumb.
Good point, though, in regards to people never being happy about the siz eof their devices. It's a tough metric to calculate. Can't please everyone, I guess. I thought the original PSP was a nice compromise between portability and capability. #pspgo
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Bright red screams 'steal me' when its accidentally left in the car. Ocean blue looks cheap.
Pearl white is okay but my fat sausage fingers will smudge it.
Turquoise - lol
As for pink, I can off hand count 6 people i know who would love it in pink. ( one of them will marry it if it was pink and had Hello Kitty on it)
It says at the end to send email to Mark Wilson? Do i email him which color i like? #pspgo
11/12/09
That's just part of thew new layout for Giz, to remind us to write to the editors. Apparently their daily volume of rage-fuled fanboy hate-mail, unsettling illicit proposals, and miscellaneous "yeah, me too" email was very low, hence the new format. That's my guess.
Oh, and maybe we have the same friend... pink with Hello Kitty? Yeah, she'd be all over that. When I'm looking to buy her a gift I occasionally feel creepy standing in the kinds of aisles and sections that harbor such items. It's just not natural. #pspgo
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At £50 thats about $100.
Mr. Wilson, you gotta convert pounds to dollars, son.
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@SmokeyRivers: One word: microwave. #projectnatal
11/12/09
However you do make a valid point about profit. Natal is supposed to be provide incentive to go out and buy more games. #projectnatal
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HYPOTHETICALLY:
If they lose $50 per Natal, that sounds like it hurts, especially x 5 million.
But, when you factor in the fact that the wireless adapter is ~$75 profit, and a 120gb HD is ~$100 profit, they would still be in pretty damn good financial shape all things considered.
Now...that really applies better for a console closer to launch--at this point, a large percentage of the people who ever planned on getting a 360 have gotten one, I'd imagine. But even so, those people who haven't bought one, they're going to need that wireless adapter and/or hard drive.
MS - $NATAL + ($WIFI | $HD)
-$50 + ($75 -$150) = $25-100 profit. And that's not including the games and other accessories.
Smart plan. Though I still wouldn't buy a 360--waste of $ to have both PS3 and 360 in my opinion. (No offense to anyone who owns both. It just doesn't work for me financially--paying off college loans at my first full-time job--AKA not enough money--and all) #projectnatal
11/11/09
Lastly, Natal sounds - hardware wise - pretty simple. A couple of cameras, some microphones and an embedded processor. Most of what makes Natal lies in the firmware, and that doesn't cost a penny to replicate. #projectnatal
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@thedoraz: I wouldn't be pitying him, especially not with the women he's still picking up. #projectnatal
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