Netbook & Notebook gap getting darn too close with Dell Mini 12
The day netbook will merge with notebook is closer than you and I think–next month!? Since Dell will unleash Dell Inspiron Mini 12, the successor of Mini 9, with $600-$700 price tag depending on configuration. 6-cell battery one probably last 6-hour (let’s say 4-5 in practice) according to LaptopMag.com.
Brief specification of this mutant netbook:-
CPU: Intel Atom
RAM: 1GB of RAM
Hard disk drive: 60/80GB
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic
Screen: 12.1" Glossy WXGA (1280×800)
Connectivity: Bluetooth, WLAN 802.11b/g
Ports: 3*USB, VGA, Card reader, Mic & headphone jack.
Extra: Webcam
Thickness: 0.92" – 1.09"
Weight: 2.72 lbs
I am amazed of what netbook is going to be–from 7" Eee 70x to now in only less than a year!! No more portability in that sense. Not that I don’t like this, but this should mean things equipped Intel Atom shouldn’t belong to only netbook no more. Then it will make sense
IMO, eventually expensive ultra portable will fade away from the market. No matter how good they are, they are just like Vertu which offers none to other, but extraordinary price that no one considers buying one. Sad that some of them are such a great thing–Sony TZ. The question is whether we will see less and less innovation in that area too? probably so. :-/ [but we will see innovation in low-end side instead!! I don't know which is better honestly.]
check out more pics @ LaptopMag.com
[via Notebookreview.com & LaptopMag.com]
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Sharing Printer from 64-bit box to 32-bit clients
Well, I was starting to turn all my Windows boxes to 64-bit–all Linux ones are 64-bit already. I expected to see an improvement, but yet to see in practice. Along the way to transform to 64-bit, I had a problem about printer sharing. By the fact that I had network attached printer, you might wonder why I need to share it again. If I told you here that my printer was HP, most of you guys might get it why I prefer to do this way.
- HP drivers are crap.
- It comes with a lot of bloatwares.
- Too many running processes required.
Windows also doesn’t have currently HP printer driver, so I couldn’t print that easily. The advantage of this method is you could just add a shared printer with minimum driver installed on your workstation. Please share if you have a better way to do so.
By the way, Microsoft put some trick making this more difficult than it should be. The idea is when you install the driver on the 64-bit box then share. This is simple. However, this will allow only 64-bit machine to use this shared printer since there is no 32-bit driver or any particular driver for your machine architecture. Simple solution is adding another architecture driver to that. That was an unexpected problem started.
- Add drivers, then it will ask for driver for the architecture you choose–32-bit in this case.
- Browse for the 32-bit drivers.
- Then it will ask for Windows Media (x86 processor) [ntprint.inf file]
- What the heck is that??
- I put VIsta setup disc
- download new drivers
- find the file in %windir%
Those above don’t help. So, how do we know where and what that files are. I just found that it was located in your x86 machine.
%windir%\winsxs\x86_ntprint.inf_******************
That’s where you need to point to or you can just copy that folder out to 64-bit. That would be fine as well. After this, you’ve done. Sit back and relax. All your machine will be able to use the shared printer seamlessly.
Thanks to the development of network, so that we can live our lives much more comfortable
Note: For sharing printer from 32-bit box to 64-bit one, you just have to get the **_ntprint** folder from 64-bit machine, then add driver as procedure above. You will be all set. =)
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Lenovo IdeaPad Wallpaper
Yes, I know I just posted Dell’s ones minutes ago. But I can resist sharing this as well. They are so cool and this is the one I’m using right now. Lenovo provide such a good one here on Ideapad U110–a lovely ultraportable notebook. What I’m pretty sure of is you guys all would love this set.
Theme of this set is seasons; first 4 wallpapers are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Very nice indeed. As usual, you may click on the thumbnail for original size (1920px*1200px.) These are all wide screen version. Believe it or not, Lenovo are so kind to give us full screen version also. If you guys like it, just let me know. I just think that most of you guys all have wide screen monitor, so these are all you need. Unlike me, with my 4:3 screen on the great X61T.
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Dell Studio Wallpaper
Another good wallpaper from Dell; since our lives need something new to keep us fresh. Well, this might be a chance to add new wallpapers in your collection. I grabbed these from Dell Studio 15–some are old, traditional Dell; 3 are new, and they all are here.
Click them to see the original size (1920px*1200px)
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