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Comment Re:It's right for you. Will you be allowed to buy (Score 1) 445

The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy
a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without
Windows.

Given TFA's reference to Businesspeople and the current climate of data security breaches and cross-boarder laptop seizures, it is probably NOT advisable for businesspeople to carry around more than 10GB of data with them. Rather, they should access it by VPN or via encrypted flash storage.

For the rest of us nerds though, who like to have hundreds of gigs of por^H^H^H relevant facts and figures with us at all times, will be able to do as you say, self-install.

Comment Re:Spreadsheet (Score 1) 437

This might have been the case before 2002, but...
Have you seriously looked at the printing interface for OS X? It's garbage. Splitting everything onto small screens with non-intuitive descriptions in that drop-down box might look pretty and uncluttered, but it really isn't productive.

Case in point: A couple months ago, I was helping someone with FileMaker over the phone and we couldn't find the option to print only the current record. The answer: it was in the specific FileMaker print dialog, which was so far down the drop-down list that you had to scroll to it.

While I'm not a fan of application-specific open/save/print dialogs, I'd wish Apple could have come up with something better. For people who keep saying "graphic design, graphic design, graphic design" they must do web-only or have gotten used to how ghastly this is.

AMD

Submission + - AMD Reveals "Griffin" and "Puma" M

MojoKid writes: "AMD disclosed a few details today regarding their upcoming mobile platform technologies, codenamed "Griffin" and "Puma". According to AMD, Griffin will be manufactured at 65nm and it will feature a new mobile optimized on-die Northbridge with a power optimized DDR2 memory controller, HyperTransport 3 connectivity, and larger L2 caches that current designs. Details here show the new memory controller should also extended battery life thanks to new power saving features, that allow the controller to operate on separate power plane and at a lower voltage than the execution cores."
Windows

Submission + - Norton AntiVirus flags Pegasus Mail as a trojan

dtobias writes: "In an update on May 17, Norton AntiVirus from Symantec began detecting the executable file for the current version of Pegasus Mail for Windows as the "Trjan.Dropper" trojan horse and deleting it. Attempts to reinstall Pegasus fail as long as Norton is active. There is no definitive word yet about why they have done this and whether and when they will fix it. Much discussion is in the Pegasus community forum. It appears that attempts to resolve the issue through Symantec tech support resulted in the typical clueless support-droid reactions."

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