Phoenix seems to resell every technology or piece that is not part of it’s core business: producing BIOS or EFI-BIOS for PC motherboard.
Focus on core business, or real problem?
This link will show you what happens with the digital copy of today, that is probably worse than analog copies used in old days, due to lossy codec!
Yes, digital makes perfect copy over and over. That was the theory for CD, it was wrong. That was the theory for video, see for yourself what happens 
Hi, I have a mini hp 110 netbook with bluetooth/wifi/built-in camera etc. It works really well, very fast and has a battery life of around 3 hours. I don’t need it anymore because I got an ipad 3g for work.
This is the whole story
I am “downsized”. Doesn’t means I was fired due to company downsizing, nor that I feel … huuu… little…
It means that I am moving back to mobile computing as fast as possible. I setted up a desktop quad-core hackintosh on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 8GB RAM (planned to upgrade it to 16GB), 4 hard-drives (2×1TB RAID-0 OS X+Photos+Music, 2TB Vidéos, 1TB Windows), with 24″ inch display. I thought I need that to work. My MacBook Pro (Core2 Duo 2×2.8Ghz, 8GB) was too slow even with 1TB hard-drive.
And then there was 2 events that totally changed my mind…
SSD drive
I tried 64GB SSD storage on myMacBook Pro and discovered a fast and reactive computer, far faster than my RAID-0 desktop for most of my tasks except H.264 Full HD video encoding! I could still beat it using my Turbo.264 HD for video encoding, but at the price of quality, and I am not the kind that want to trade quality for speed!
I bought a CRUCIAL C300 256GB SSD on NewEgg, installed it on my MacBook Pro, and decided to use cloud storage to share files between computers and devices, with both MobileMe (Emails, Contacts, Agenda, Safari Bookmarks…) and DropBox (files).
I added a ProBox 4xSATA storage on my TimeCapsule. 2TB Video, 1TB Photo+Music, 1.5TB Time Capsule and storage for my beloved one, and 1.5TB spare, 6TB online storage shared by my MacBook Pro and my Hackintosh/Windows 7 quad-core PC.
This PC just have 2 hard-drive to boot on, and do some internal work (1TB each!), so it began to be less and less used, except for video encoding, using BD-Rebuilder and x264 codec. And it’s my backup computer in case my MacBook Pro is stolen or needs repair!
iPad 3G
I bought an iPad Wifi (64GB model) in april, and was really happy with it, except that on many places there’s no public-available WiFi!
So this friday, at Canadian launch of iPad, I just bought an iPad 3G+WiFi 64GB, with a Rogers 250MB plan. As expected Rogers do it wrong from start, but since yesterday afternoon, they seems to deliver content again. iPhone users and iPad users have been impaired since arrival of first iPad on thursday, and it was a real mess!
But now, I begin to use my iPad really anywhere, taking it with me, as my first computing tool.
As a consultant, computing for me means 2 different things, and the most important one is not development (that I do on my MacBook Pro), but emails, server monitoring, analysis, document reading and with Pages for iPad, document writing or updating!
Combining Pages and DropBox on a 3G iPad is really impressive, you have your emails, files (starred ones), documents with you, and you are even able to write quality document (I mean better looking than with desktop Microsoft Office!), on the go, and synchronize them wirelessly using DropBox, share them with your team, and even with your Mac using iTunes.
Downsized
Now I am truly downsized, my main computing and communication platform is my iPad, able to access a great amount of my work, and produce document, exchange ideas, monitor things. And my secondary one is my MacBook Pro. a Mobile desktop replacement that is heavy but so powerful with an SSD that you might be surprised by the performace-level it reach, 235 XBench global score, 40% over an average MacPro!
This is the trend, lightweight, mobile, efficient, anyplace anytime. Cloud+iPad+SSD laptop is a winning combination over pure CPU power of a desktop computer, or it’s internal storage ability!
Here in Québec, we have one of the worst carrier of the world, and they fucked up the submission form to activate your iPad Data plan: the expected province for Quebec is not the usual QC or QUEBEC. It is PQ!
So if you live in Québec, enter PQ as province and everything will be okay
PS: My cellular data account failed miserably anyway. And actually I could not access the “Settings->Cellular->Cellular Data account screen”, or extremly slowly! It’s really bullshit!
PS2: It’s now activated on the third attempt, and the gateway (between 3G and Internet) is just crashing over and over! Rogers!