Hardware

New $800 MacBooks?

Maybe. And I don't just mean the refurbished ones (with the same warranty as new) on the Apple store that I have been buying for years ;).

Images for Microsoft "I'm a PC" campaign created on Macs - but that's not the worst part

Microsoft posted images from the ad campaign on its website to "trumpet" the new "I'm a PC" byline. Turns out 4 of the images were created with "Adobe Photoshop C3 Macintosh."

Personally, I thought the new ad campaign was fairly clever. I don't know that I would have responded directly to the Mac meme (acknowledging it at all might backfire), but overall I thought it was a better campaign than anything else I have seen them do . . . . until, NO, is that Deepak Chopra?

Android powered HTC device for $199

Purportedly the first Android device will be available soon in the states for $199, through T-Mobile.

Not all of the details are in (an announcement is expected the 23rd), but the WSJ notes that it will highlight the Google brand.

Android phone approved by the FCC - HTC Dream

SDK delays for the general public notwithstanding, its on the way: A ‘Dream’ Come True: U.S. Approves the First Google Phone.

Really useful stuff - turn your Wii into a DVD player

My DVD broke a while back (first one I have ever had that just stopped working, all the cheap ones over the years were fine, the fancy Toshiba upconverting one dies after a year - I digress). I had a Wii in the same room connected to the same TV, so I just threw out the DVD player thinking to myself - don't need it, will just play em on the Wii (if the need arises).

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