Month: May 2008
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Titanium & Blue Aluminum
I finished building my new Kent Eriksen titanium hardtail XC bike this week. I’ve been working on this bike for almost three months, and it was well worth the effort. The frame was made by Kent Eriksen in Steamboat Springs, CO. Kent did a great job (as expected), and was very helpful in the design…
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Lenovo ThinkPad X300
A Brief Lenovo X300 Review from a MacBook Air User: First impressions: Nice materials, very light, but thicker and bulkier than I expected. The overall appearance of the X300 is scarcely different than my old ThinkPad 600e, which was a great looking laptop (in 1998). Industrial engineering must not be Lenovo’s strong suit… Opening the…
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Trash PC
I gave away my last PC (i.e. non-Apple) in 2005. I recently recovered this beige-box PC from the garbage. It has a Pentum 4 2.8 GHz CPU, integrated video, 256 MB RAM (upgraded to 768 MB with a 512 MB DIMM left over from a G4 Mac Mini upgrade) and a POS Western Digital 80…