In celebration of the iPod turning ten (which technically happens Sunday, it launched 10/23/2001), Headline Shirts is running a one day, one dollar sale on their Boombox Tee. Memorialize the boombox, slain by the mighty iPod! You just need to enter the code ‘podbday’ during checkout. Geeks and oddball T-shirts seem to have a symbiotic relationship, and Headline Shirts has a nice selection of the latter.
Remember, today only, Boombox Tee for $1, enter the code ‘podbday’. Simple.
I find having a spare laptop power supply is very useful. I can leave one packed up in my laptop bag and another plugged in in my regularly work environment. Then when I need to pick up and go I can just grab the laptop and stick it in the bag. No need to pack up the power supply. Convenient, especially if doing so means crawling under a desk to unplug it, then fishing the cable out, etc. But spare OEM power supplies can be expensive, and if you switch laptops you invariably have to buy another one.
So today’s Sellout.Woot! deal may be of interest. They’re offering a refurbished iGo Universal 90-Watt Slim Notebook AC Adapter for only $17.99 + $5 S&H. And it comes with eight different tips:
- 701 for Acer, Compaq, HP
- 702 for Dell
- 703 for Compaq, HP
- 704 for IBM, Lenovo
- 705 for Asus, Compaq, HP
- 706 for Several Brands including Fujitsu, Gateway and Toshiba
- 707 for Acer, Gateway
- 709 for Sony
These were $79.99 new, and iGo sells this same refurbished unit for $49.99. I found a vendor selling them on Amazon for $22.99 + $5.49 S&H, so this is still the better deal.
I don’t really have any need for a fan, but part of me wants to buy one of these just because they’re cool & geeky. And this is a pretty good deal, with Woot! offering a new Dyson Air Multiplier Bladeless Pedestal Fan for only $229.99 + $5 S&H
. The MSRP on these is $449.99, and Amazon sells them for $359.00.
And it is an excuse to post this video again, even it it does feature the tabletop version and not the pedestal model on sale today:
For the third quarter of 2011 iPad, unsurprisingly, dominated the tablet market with a 66.6% share. Android came in second with 26.9%, according to figures from Strategy Analytics. At first glance that seems like a dominating win by iPad, but compare those numbers to a year prior. In 3Q10 iPad had 95.5% of the market, and Android only 2.3%. Android has been grabbing market share rapidly, at the expense of iPad. Though the overall market grew 280% in that year’s time, growing from 4.4 million units to 16.7 million, so neither side is exactly losing. Together iOS and Android dominated with 93.5% of the market.
What about the rest? Windows came in a distant, distant third with 2.4% of the market on 400,000 units shipped. Which double’s RIM’s 200,000 Playbooks shipped. 500,000 other tablets shipped, many of those likely WebOS TouchPads HP dumped on the market.
With the TouchPad out of the market and the Playbook stagnant, and Windows 8 tablets still a ways off, iOS and Android should take even more of the market this quarter. And Android should take more market share from iOS as more Android tablets hit the shelves, not the least of which will be the $200 Amazon Kindle Fire. Well, if you can really call it an Android tablet given how heavily customized it is.
Via The Register.
Asus Chairman Johnny Shih talked with Walt Mossberg onstage at the AsiaD conference the other day, and while there he revealed that the sequel to the successful Asus Eee Pad Transformer, formerly referred to as the Transformer 2, will be officially known as the Transformer Prime. Well, I suppose Samsung wasn’t using it since the Nexus Prime turned out to actually be named the Galaxy Nexus. The Transformer Prime won’t contain the AllSpark, but it will be the first quad-core Android tablet. It will run the new Nvidia Tegra 3 chip, code named Kal-El. They’ve even released a teaser video, which doesn’t reveal much at all really:
The Tegra 3 has its own teaser, which reveals even less. The original posting was pulled, but, unsurprisingly, someone has already reposted a copy:
I’m looking forward to the official announcement on November 9th, especially pricing and a release date. As you may recall from earlier posts, a few months ago I was trying to decide between which Android tablet to pick up. In the end I decided the Transformer was the one for me. But I had some other things to deal with and I put off buying it, and then the Osborne Effect kicked in as rumors of the Transformer 2 launching before the end of the year with Kal-El and Ice Cream Sandwich appeared. And now we know it will have Kal-El, and reports are it will ship with ICS. I haven’t seen any other tablet that swayed me from the Transformer form factor, and the Transformer Prime looks like more of the same – only better. I might be tempted to hold out for the Padphone, since I love the concept, but it looks like it won’t happen until at least the first quarter of 2012, and that’s tentative. It isn’t enough to make me wait, so I’ll probably be picking up a Galaxy Nexus when it hits Verizon and then most likely a Transformer Prime.
Via Liliputing. Also here. And AllThingsD.
