Microsoft Surface

(Windows Surface with Type cover)

Microsoft held a conference yesterday and I am pleasantly surprised by what they announced. Two tablets and accessories. One with an ARM processor, and one with an Intel processor.

Response to PowerMax.com's "Top Ten Reasons Macs Are Better Than PCs"

This article was posted on /g/ and I thought I'd respond to it. Be warned though, it contains copious amounts of bias and stupidity.
Here is the link: The Top Ten Reasons Macs Are Better Than PCs

Here is my response:

Windows 8 on my laptop

I got my laptop back (had to send it in to school to get all school owned programs wiped from it) so I replaced the 2.5" HDD with my Corsair Force F60 SSD and installed Windows 8 Release Preview on it. I must say, Windows 8 on a laptop like this, is fantastic. There seems to be a bug where I got like 50% chance of getting a blue screen when I start from sleep mode, but other than that it's great.
Very smooth even with mediocre specs (core 2 duo and 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics) and it really feels like the limited resolution gets used efficiently with the new GUI. Booting takes about 20 seconds, and more than half of that time seems to be the BIOS loading. Yeah, starting the BIOS takes longer than fully booting the whole OS.

The new "Retina" Macbook Pro

The only interesting thing announced at Apple's WWDC was the new Retina Macbook Pro. They also announced iOS 6, some things for OS X Lion and other stuff, but to me, the biggest thing by far was the Macbook Pro.

(Photo from Anandtech)

Oh Microsoft you so crazy

Why can't Apple keynotes be this awesome?

Apple now owns yet another ridiculous patent

You guys have seen those trendy ultrabooks, right? Very light weight and thin laptops with somewhat decent processors, an SSD and usually pretty nice screens.
Well, most of them uses a triangular shape, where the front (where the touch pad is located) is quite a bit thinner than the back, where the battery is located. They look kind of like this:

Asus tablets I am actually excited about

As some of you probably know, I am not a fan of those tablets like the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. However, I have seen at least 2 tablets announced at Computex this year. Both of which are from Asus. The one which I am most excited about is this one: