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Ultra Light Delight

Archive for March 2008

March 27th, 2008

Portable Apps for the Ultra Portables

One of critical or important aspect of Ultra Portables is memory space. You have to conserve it and find other ways to store or to run programs. My experience with an Asus Eee is that keeping a lot of USB drives help. Not necessarily big USB drives but between 2 to 4 GB. The rationale […]

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March 27th, 2008

Will you buy the MacBook Air?

The MacBook Air is the MacBook Air (MBA). After its debut from a manila envelope who would ever doubt that it would create Buzz. And it did. Like the Asus Eee people love or hate this ultra portable. Its just the nature of this product. If the Asus Eee is the unassuming ultra portable that […]

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March 27th, 2008

Will you buy the G10IL?

Raju Shanbhag at TCM writes that Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) will launch low cost laptops aimed to knock the Asus Eee of its position as the the Alpha of the Ultra Portables [Source]. According to Shandbhag, the laptop will use 3G Networks to connect to the Internet.
But wait there is more!

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March 25th, 2008

Ultra Portable Rumble has more than one crown at stake

It all started when the MacBook Air and the Asus Eee made its presence felt in our world. When these two ultra portables made their debut it was not surprising that they would collide. Even here at b5 there was a bit of an “interesting” debate that started at the tech bloggers egroup exchanges that […]

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March 25th, 2008

GeCube Genie PC a headless wonder?

Literally. Got this from Dan Browning at the High Tech Lounge. Read his post, Eee PC Clone, GeCube Genie PC Loses It’s Head.
So why its a headless wonder?

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March 25th, 2008

Lenovo x300 strikes at the MacBook Air

The competition between ultra-compacts is getting personal. Jayvee showed me Joshua Topolsky post, Lenovo X300 ad takes the MacBook Air head-on, at Engadget. And if you have any doubts as to how serious and deadly the rivalry to reach the Ultra Portable Delight just look at the content of this web ad for the Lenovo […]

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March 25th, 2008

Initial reaction of people to the Asus Eee

It is interesting to see how people react to new things. And when the Asus Eee came out it was no exception. People ogled at it. People played with it. And people even fiddled with its OS. And one of the things that made the Asus Eee interesting was that it had a […]

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March 25th, 2008

A useful key to remember

One of the biggest criticism of the Asus Eee when it came out was the size of the keyboard. It was too small and several people were complaining about how cramped it was. I think it was something that led to it often being referred to as a toy. Well its not a toy. It […]

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March 25th, 2008

Do you hate or love the Asus Eee ?

Or as it was known back then Asus PC 701
During the first month of the release of the Asus Eee it took the world by storm. During that time there were only two sort of people in the world. It was divided into people who loved the Asus Eee and those who did not. This […]

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March 25th, 2008

What is Ultra Portable Delight?

Do you think the title of this blog sounds like a candy or something much more colorful than sweet confectionery? I would have wanted a blog title with more brawn and less geeky like the Portable Corsair … that actually sounds much worse. But you know what I mean something with a bit more […]

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