dvorak on history's worst laptops
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Ten Worst Laptops of All Time According
to Dvorak
Ten Worst Laptops of All Time According
to Dvorak
08/03/2004 02:32 PM
Dvorak gets all
bloggy about the '10 Worst Laptops of All Time,' asking for readers to
chime in with more information about the products he thinks he might
of once seen (if he could only remember the name or model number). And
for as fuzzy as his memory is about which product he's actually
talking about is, he sure does remember when Salon magazine made fun
of him five years ago just fine. Article highlight: Saying that the
Number One Worst Laptop "could also easily appear on the ten-best
list." Wouldn't that make it, I dunno, more like a Number Five, or
maybe Number One Thousand?
Read - Bottom Ten List: Worst of the Laptops
[PCMag]
Ten Worst Laptops, Ever
Ten Worst Laptops, Ever
08/03/2004 09:29 PMThe original Apple iBook (the toilet seat edition) got into
John Dvorak's top ten worst of the laptops. "I
described it as a 'girly' computer... This got me into a heap of
trouble with politically correct Apple users."
Dvorak's best of the worst laptops
Dvorak's best of the worst laptops
08/04/2004 10:04 AM
In his PC Magazine column
this week, former BB guestblogger John Dvorak provides a bottom ten
list of laptops lost to history:
1. The Gavilan (1983). Actually this was an amazing
attempt at leapfrogging everyone. Unfortunately, the developers
leapfrogged over a cliff. This (despite what Apple mavens believe) was
actually the machine that first employed the mousepad, then called a
touchpad. The company soaked up a then-whopping $30 million in venture
capital and essentially failed right out of the gate. Nobody wanted
the machine, and the rationale for the touchpad was always
questionable. The pad was poorly located, above the keys. Originally
known as the Cosmos Computer, it ran the GOS operating system as well
as MS-DOS. Seen by many as the first true laptop, the machine is
highly collectible. It's a machine that could also easily appear on
the ten-best list.
Link (via Gizmodo)History's unsung heroes
History's unsung heroes
02/16/2003 08:05 AMBy Miki Turner. TORONTO - You there, scratching your head. And you
over yonder, sprinting off to your computer to do a google.com search.
Don't despair. ...
History's Deadliest Tsunami?
History's Deadliest Tsunami?
12/29/2004 01:45 PMCBS News Dec 29 2004 4:17PM GMT
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"Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select
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11/10/2003 11:14 PMI think, therefore I Dvorak
I think, therefore I Dvorak
09/04/2004 03:58 PM While my capacity as a journalist on Spymac.com can certainly be
questioned, I am, in real life, an editor at a fairly well-respected
daily newspaper in Rhode Island. Since I signed on to this online gig,
I’ve done my best to walk the fine line between fact and opinion,
while still providing the faithful readers of this site with a fresh
thought or a different perspective (or at least something to rile
against on Sunday morning).
The Internet is a place where everyone can have an opinion, but once
one reaches the capacity of paid correspondent, there are certain
rules that need to be followed. Granted, they are less strict than
print journalism, but — even when writing pure commentary — a certain
degree of fact should be printed somewhere therein, lest the piece
joins the ranks of the juvenile, all-too-common posts that litter the
Web. The Internet is a valuable resource, but all is not to be
trusted.
That being said, when I surf to CBS MarketWatch, I expect to receive
one of two things: an intelligent piece of news, or a well-presented
opinion that puts something into an original, thoughtful perspective.
What I don’t expect to read is an unadulterated bashing of a product
with little regard for any integrity whatsoever.
While I’ve never been a fan of John C. Dvorak’s work, his weekly
columns rarely present much more than a slightly-skewed take on a hot
tech topic. It’s clear that he’s no Mac fan, but I’ve often been able
to see his side of things and, while I usually disagree, I can give
him him benefit of the doubt.
Not this time, though.
From Phil Schiller to the iMac, the silhouette ads to Spotlight,
everything that came out of the keynote yesterday is summarily slammed
by Dvorak, and for no good reason other than a deadline. It seems as
though this article was conceived weeks ago, and whatever came out of
yesterday’s presentation would have somehow crammed itself into its
frame, much like the way he describes the iMac’s design:
<I>The architecture is risky. First of all, they jammed the
entire computer into the screen, making the idea of changing
"monitors" or screens impractical.</I>
Yeah, because I’m always switching screens on my Cinema Display.
<I>Apple seems to have lost track of time… the design is hardly
inspirational. In fact, if you put two headlamps on it and a metal sun
visor over its "windshield," it would be reminiscent of a
1954 DeSoto.</I>
Let’s be <A
HREF=”http://www.desoto.org/modules/ContentExpress/img_repository/1954
desoto.jpg">serious</A>.
<I>Observers on the Net are seeing this design as a precursor to
an Apple notepad computer. To date, the notepad revolution, as
predicted by Bill Gates, has been as successful as Blue
Pepsi.</I>
Is it really fair to tell someone what they’re thinking and then poke
fun at them for thinking it?
<I>The machine comes in one old-fashioned color: 1988 platinum
white… This unit is so white that when you visit the Apple Web site,
you can barely see the computer as it disappears into the background
of the site itself.</I>
Oh, so that’s why they had to use that blue background…
<I>Schiller spent a lot of time bragging about Apple's 59
percent market share in the MP3 player market. Is this something to be
proud of? Where does this market head? Almost anything with a small
amount of memory can be turned into an MP3 player nowadays; you just
need a headphone jack.</I>
And he goes on like this, until he ultimately concludes that the iMac
will ruin Apple. Granted, we tech writers are entitled to our
opinions, and in the battle between Macs and Wintel boxes, the lines
are drawn fairly deep. Try as we may, we tech writers can’t hide our
true feelings, but we do have an obligation of some sort to at least
<I>try</I> to be objective.
Well, compared to Mr. Dvorac anyway, I should win a Pulitzer.
Other News: Dvorak
Other News: Dvorak
09/02/2004 10:30 AM"Pricey and faddish"? That's what John Dvorak calls the new iMac.
More Crap From Dvorak
More Crap From Dvorak
12/29/2004 03:30 AMI thought about doing a detailed rebuttal about John Dvorak's latest
turd, Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis, but I couldn't get
past the second sentence before I realized that a thorough debunking
would take more time than I have....
even dvorak liked nextfest
even dvorak liked nextfest
05/18/2004 12:05 PMcongrats to the wired team for putting on an event that actually gets
people excited
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select
History's Most Interesting Dinner
Companions - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select
History's Most Interesting Dinner
Companions - Right Wing News
(Conservative News and Views)
11/10/2003 11:35 PMThe results of John Hawkins' latest survey are in .. History's Most
Interesting Dinner Companions .. best dinner guests .. Right Wing
News
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Dvorak Channels Markoff
Dvorak Channels Markoff
01/05/2005 03:11 AMZDNet Jan 5 2005 6:32AM GMT
dvorak revels in misanthropy
dvorak revels in misanthropy
04/20/2004 02:00 PMThe World's Best Troll uses his hatred of humans to justify demonizing
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Dvorak: I'm smoking crack
Dvorak: I'm smoking crack
03/21/2003 01:36 PM Apple to
switch to Intel processors, at least according to John Dvorak in a
brief article over at PC Magazine. No mention in the article of the
massive amount of effort required to re-write every piece of
mac-compatible software for x86 architecture, or the unlikeliness of
developers to be willing to do so having just optimized for OSX, but
then, this piece seems to be mostly just bold, unsupported
predictions.
dvorak dumps on socsoft
dvorak dumps on socsoft
02/16/2004 05:30 PMhis complaints are getting within a few weeks of being timely these
days... he must be reading blogs
Notes and Tips: Dvorak Thoughts
Notes and Tips: Dvorak Thoughts
01/05/2005 02:00 PMReaders offer a few final thoughts about "shock jock" John and his
slimy statistics.
Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18
months
Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18
months
03/20/2003 09:37 AMPC Magazine's John Dvorak is predicting that Apple will switch to
Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months...
Dvorak: Apple will go Intel within 18
months
Dvorak: Apple will go Intel within 18
months
03/20/2003 08:33 AMNewton II in January? Dvorak thinks
so...
Newton II in January? Dvorak thinks
so...
11/10/2003 10:59 PMIn an article on PC Magazine's Web site, John C...
Dvorak international keyboard layout for
xkb 1.1
Dvorak international keyboard layout for
xkb 1.1
07/09/2004 04:43 PMA Dvorak international keyboard layout for use with the xkb keyboard
mapper.
Dvorak: iMac G5 'reminiscent of 1954
DeSoto'
Dvorak: iMac G5 'reminiscent of 1954
DeSoto'
09/02/2004 05:55 PMAfter taking several jabs at Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice
president for worldwide product marketing, John C...
Dvorak: New Commentary betrays aging
vision
Dvorak: New Commentary betrays aging
vision
09/02/2004 11:16 PMYou can always depend on John C. Dvorak to miss the point.
His latest anti-Apple
tirade begins with unwarranted attacks on Philip Schiller, moves
on to display impatience with the keynote time spent lauding the iPod
and finishes up with uninspired criticisms of the new iMac.
"The machine comes in one old-fashioned color: 1988 platinum
white," he whines.
"[The design is] hardly jazzy or interesting," he complains.
It all sounds more like the grumbling of that angry old man that used
to shoo my friends and I off his lawn when I was younger and not the
insightful writings of a technology commentator.
Dvorak predicts Apple will move to Intel
Dvorak predicts Apple will move to Intel
03/20/2003 03:15 PMSelf-proclaimed Apple "expert" John Dvorak, who loves to predict
Apple's death every few months, now
predicts
that Apple will switch to Intel within 18 months.
At least he isn't predicting Apple's death, for a change.
Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak
Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak
12/22/2004 01:06 AMUnderstanding and Reading a Blog (for Newcomers) .. John Dvorak has
your answers .. How to read a
weblog
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Dvorak Claims Disruptive Technologies
Don't Exist
Dvorak Claims Disruptive Technologies
Don't Exist
08/02/2004 04:42 AMJohn C. Dvorak seems to exist solely to show just how little he
understands about technology and business these days. His latest
piece points to a few bad examples of what might be disruptive
technologies and then
claims
there's simply no such thing as a disruptive technology, as
described by Clayton Christensen. It appears Dvorak has never
actually read Christensen's books, but assumes he knows what they're
about after hearing Christensen say the idea of disruptive
technologies came to him while watching how DEC failed. Maybe the
problem is that, like others before him, Dvorak misreads "disruptive"
and assumes there needs to be a "big bang" (he mentions the atom bomb
as being disruptive), when the truth is "disruptive technologies" are
really
"straig
ht, boring technologies. In the meantime, I'd suggest that Dvorak
take a look at VoIP and camera phones, but it appears he's
already trashed camera phones for not being good
enough (the first sign of someone who doesn't understand disruptive
technologies) and while he seems to
like
VoIP and admit that it's the "future of telephony," it never
occurs to him that it's disruptive.
Dvorak out of ideas, phones-in another
''Macs are doomed'' article
Dvorak out of ideas, phones-in another
''Macs are doomed'' article
12/28/2004 02:46 PMI really shouldn't post news about Dvorak articles, it just encourages
him. But this latest one is so devoid of anything original or
insightful that instead of giving evidence to the eminent demise of
the Mac platform it adds more credence to the idea that Dvorak's
journalistic career is what is actually on the downward spiral. The
article has all the usual Dvorakisms: the Mac market is declining no
matter what you've heard, Macs are too expensive, all the things we
think are helping the platform (Steve Jobs, Mac fans, iPods, and Mac
OS X) are actually killing it in by some twisted reasoning. He is
simply running out of new ways to point out how Macs are undesirable
while still finding the need to strengthen his own persona as a Mac
basher.
[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to
delve deeper.]
dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates
dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates
01/16/2004 11:26 AMi like when john sounds like a guy mumbling to himself in the corner.
nobody bullshits better.
Dvorak on large hard drives and the
future of the media center PC
Dvorak on large hard drives and the
future of the media center PC
11/19/2003 01:41 AMCurmudgeonly PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wonders, with hard
drive capacities doubling every year, whether all PCs might eventually
have to become Media Center PCs just so we'll have something (i.e.
recorded TV shows) to fill up their massive hard drives with. He is,
of course, not particularly pleased by the prospect of this. Read...
Dvorak foresees a helpless Mac community
in the face of a spyware attack
Dvorak foresees a helpless Mac community
in the face of a spyware attack
12/24/2004 12:31 PMIn a recent online PC Magazine article "Panic Over Spyware" by
everyone's favorite curmudgeon, John C. Dvorak, the purposes and
implications of spyware are explored. On the final page of the story,
Mr. Dvorak writes, "The national media pay little attention to the
problem, and many mainstream media tech writers are Mac users, so they
don't get it. Who knows what will happen when the Mac community gets
hit? They feel immune, and are for now. But when they get hit, there
will be few resources to help them, since the antispyware community is
busy with all the PC-related problems."
I have a hard time disagreeing with the predicted outcome of John C's
"what if?" scenario: we probably aren't prepared because we have yet
to truly be challenged. But is a spyware attack on the Mac platform
even likely?
Comment below.
[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to
delve deeper.]
Not worst, but first
Not worst, but first
06/17/2004 01:45 AMUSA Today Jun 17 2004 6:31AM GMT
When the Worst Happens
When the Worst Happens
07/12/2004 12:54 PM
It's finally started happening -- attacks on Internet users are
appearing before there are patches to stop them -- the
so-called "Day Zero Exploits".
Even if you're careful and doing everything right, you might still
be hit
What does this mean to you, and how can you protect yourself from
this new escalation of attacks?
Find out here.
Nature's Worst
Nature's Worst
09/02/2004 01:40 PM
Reuters: Floridians Brace for Monster Storm
Frances. "You cannot hope this off, you cannot walk away. It is
not time to hope, it is time to act," Florida Emergency Management
Director Craig Fugate said.
(Photo via
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration)
The worst of Times
The worst of Times
12/28/2004 09:25 AMTwo new books on the New York Times relive its recent crises. But
while the Jayson Blair scandal made for splashy headlines, the real
question is how the country's leading newspaper will recover from
spreading lies about Iraq's WMD.
The very worst system, apart from all
the others
The very worst system, apart from all
the others
01/07/2004 05:41 PMIn the continuing realisation that they can get people to work for
free, the techification of the US presidential campaigns just gets
geekier and geekier. Not content with Wesley Clark's new Open Source
initiative, Howard Dean's lot have released the...
Schering's Worst Is Yet to Come
Schering's Worst Is Yet to Come
01/26/2004 05:22 PMPlus, Kimberly-Clark hits the mark, and the Marvels of 2004.
Schering: Worst Still to Come
Schering: Worst Still to Come
01/26/2004 01:56 PMThe flailing pharma sees a sorry 2004.
Worst Game Ever
Worst Game Ever
03/06/2004 02:08 AMI was doing research for Lockergnome's new channel, Game Invasion,
when I stumbled upon Taleban Attack. I... don't know what to say. The
page was written in Italian, but according to a rough translation:
"Totally in 3D, it is divided in 2 distinguished parts: from the part
of the talebani and from the part of the Americans." Wow. This is a
nightmare come true....
DCRTV Best and Worst
DCRTV Best and Worst
01/04/2004 02:47 AMRead DCRTV's Best and Worst for 2003. See how opinions vary greatly
over the same things. X is the best, no it's the worst! ...
The Worst of Both Worlds
The Worst of Both Worlds
03/06/2004 02:06 AMThe DC Circuit Court of Appeals has
overturned significant
portions of the FCC's Triennial Review order from last year. So,
essentially, we now have FCC Chairman Powell's policies for today's
networks, and Commissioner Kevin Martin's policies for
tomorrow's. This makes things even worse than before.
The best argument one could make for the majority's decision was that
UNE-P would foster some competitive entry in the absence of
line-sharing (which Powell wanted to keep) and open fiber
networks. The best argument for Powell's view (which I
reluctantly supported) was that the broadband fight was what really
mattered, so we can afford to let UNE-P die. For now, at least,
the DC Circuit has given us the worst of both worlds.
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