The 5 Smallest Laptops in The World

Everyone wants to make the smallest and the cheapest laptop (or so it would seem). It’s apparently the latest trend in technology that sells, and every hardware manufacturer under the bloody sun it jumping on the bandwagon. In this super amazing post, we’ll have a look at the top 5, and pick a winner for style, functionality, and price.

(on a side note, RE the first picture, they may be small but I wouldnt advise taking them to a beach or spa, its just a recipe for disaster really…)

First up is the one that started it all really, this was the bad boy that kicked off the trend – and everyone else is to an extent just copying it. The Asus Eee PC (£220), pictured here in use by a lady with rather nice breasts. This one is (so far) the definitive winner of the functionality category.

Then there was the Everex Cloudbook (£340), which was so unbelievably delayed and unreliably promoted that it pretty much lost all its credibilty before it even went on sale! I’m not a fan of this little one, its ugly, it doesnt do much, and its overpriced.

Then more recently there’s been the 3K Computers RazorBook400 (£200 est) which we don’t know very much about because it isnt actually in production yet, but the pictures and the proposed specs (4GB Flash memory, boot time of 8 seconds) sound pomising.

Then there’s the real market-killer, the Dell Mini-Inspiron, which really really looks promising. Its sleek, smooth, sexy and doesnt look half as plasticy as the other mini laptops. Its probably fair to assume that this luxury comes at a price though, and I wouldnt expect to find one (when its released) for under £450. A clear winner of the syle category.

And finally, there’s the ‘One Laptop Per Child‘ project (£100), who have created this monstrosity laptop to be cheap and usable by children – so that it can be distributed to less fortunate countries and aid them, etc. (They don’t have food but as long as they have wifi and broadband they’ll be just fine!) It is however, an easy winner of the price category.

The Dell is by far the most exciting if you ask me, and I am shallow and may trade in my Eee when the time comes just for the sake of looking good. Then sit back with my executive tableware, and see how quickly I can type on yet another computer where the keys are so close together that I need chopsticks to hit them individually.

Apple’s 20th Anniversary Unboxing

Today we have something a little different in store. In celebration of Apple’s 20th anniversary, some old codger has cracked out a brand new Apple desktop known as the ‘TAM’ – which was first produced 20 years ago.

The rather lengthy video below shows said codger unpacking a rather strange looking dummy from a box, followed closely by the TAM personal computer, fresh in all its boxed glory. Its actually quite interesting to see that some of Apple’s design trends set 20 years ago are still ever present today, for example the flat screen monitor with (part of ?) the computer built into it (which I didn’t even know existed in the 80’s) and the keyboard with the mouse trackpad built in, very similar in design to.. lets see.. oh thats right – every laptop in the world!

Fantastic to see such a classic product in action, and awsome to see some of the earliest Apple design elements – even the packaging of a 20 year old machine was impressive… if only Steve Jobs had decided to pack up shop and buy west sussex property in England then maybe the prices for Today’s products would be half decent!

Tunes in The Pool

Obviously keeping those pecks in shape means some form of excersize is required, I don’t like to let any manflab build up, so my personal sport of choice is swimming. Now swimming, joyful as it may be, can get incredibly boring, incredibly fast, when you’re doing it regularly. For years I’ve done jogging with music, weight training with music, and even played basketball to music, but the pool has always been the one place I go that my music can’t come with me.. until now.

There is a small company in the UK called H2OLife that supply a magnificent little gadget called the ‘Freestyle Audio’ swimming mp3 player. Its fully submersible for swimming or other water related activities, and it is also very very shockproof. Here’s a video of it being dropped off a roof!

Looks like it’d last, and in comparison the iPod Nano does look pretty flimsy. I know I know, the Nano wasnt made to be dropped off roofs, before all the seriously hardcore Apple fans start screaming. But nevertheless, which will last longer? Thats not a difficult general decision fom my point of view by any means.

As swimming mp3 players go, I honstly can’t say I’ve seen a better one, so if you’re going to get a swim mp3 player, I’d definitely recommend it!