Posted in CES 2012, Technology

CES Rumors and HP Secrets

Well, it seems that while Apple seems to be be taking over the news (again) with the rumored AppleTV that we all knew about since the release of the Walter Isaccson biography of Steve Jobs, HP seems to have a possible ace of its sleeve with a newly “leaked” trailer type video for a new ultrabook. Apple right now, is the leader in this market with the MacBook Air. There are others out there by Acer and Lenovo, but those two companies are much smaller than HP or Apple, so I don’t think they have the market cornered just yet. It seems though as Apple is already building some steam for the month of January, it may be one of the companies of 2012 to keep an eye on. The rumor mill is also stirring with news of the iPad 3, a January media event and hackers running iPhone and iPad apps fullscreen on the AppleTV.

HP will have to step up its game in these “leaks” if they want anymore excitement in this news. I think as the weeks pass and we all begin to overlook some of HP’s blunders, we may see more information leading up to CES 2012. I think that the HP WebOS is a possible sell off or it may even be brought back by HP with the sale of the HP touchpad over and over and over again this last year. Even with all that craziness that was 2011 for HP, I don’t think a new CEO will solve all of their problems either. I mean, her last job was eBay, not really a hardware company at all. Does she have the intellect and determination to make HP a great company again? Only time will tell.

I can say though, HP is everywhere when it comes to laptops though. Bestbuy and Amazon has to be two of the biggest retailers that sell their laptops like it is going out of style. Everywhere I go these days, all I see is that little HP logo or the Apple logo. I really don’t see Dell, Toshiba, Acer or really any other manufacturer that much out there. As for myself, my last two personal laptops have been HP. So will this newly “leaked” HP ultrabook be the revival of the HP name? Or will the logo change be all that they need? With all of this going on, and 2012 just now getting started, I hope the best for HP, and can’t wait to the see the Spectre at CES!!

Posted in Apple, Technology

AppleTV vs BoxeeBox vs Popbox (Infograph)

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Now I know I missed the Roku Box, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but this was my first shot at an info graphic, if you like it, Digg it!

You can see my sources:

http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html

http://www.boxee.tv/box

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10429585-269.html

http://www.popbox.com/features.php

and other comparison sites:

http://newteevee.com/2010/09/01/comparison-apple-tv-vs-roku-vs-boxee-box/

http://ipod.about.com/od/decidingwhichipodtobuy/a/appletv_chart.htm

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20015367-1.html