Recent content by curt504

Other then some Gov mandate for EV, in my view, I've not heard a good answer to; why EV or even plug in for a working truck? My digging into the CO2 math finds EV stays net negative throughout its life time, unless very small battery / elec motor in a hybrid. Even on a small battery the...

I love google maps. Am on beta track. I do wish there was middle ground between dynamic download map data on demand vs off line maps down load. In spotty cell service IMHO maps should keep a cache of recent map data vs just tossing it. Todays cell phones have oodles of space. Theres no...

Not this exact scenario, but I've bought $10 wifi USB sticks to solve similar problems. Since the lap top is nearly worthless without wifi, tossing $10 at a work around in my mind is well worth it. Then you'll get a new driver etc. Good luck. I just HATE windows / HW fritzes.

I'm wondering about the Epson ET 4550 the 2 yr supply of ink all in one??

XPS15 sounds nice. But after giving myself an ulcer trying to figure out a "usability" solution to the win8's on new HW I thankfully re-discovered buying low usage used laptops off ebay. Just bought a dell E6430u (ultrabook) with the better display, I7, SSD, back lite keyboard for a whopping...

All this is completely irrelevant given my iphone can't even perform as a mediocre phone and save more than 100 last calls and even does a poor job indexing those messily calls. Type in the last 4 digits of a caller's phone number and it won't find the number you are looking right at. It's all...

For business use I find the I5 to be a great CPU. I have a full boat I7 on my desktop, both win7 and win7 and apps just don't know what to do with the cores at work. cores are a waste in a business scenario! Higher clock rate and fewer cores if that saves cost is better than sub 3Ghz and more...

as an engineer in a similar space I realized the fatal problem with this type of product... Each device must have a very low battery drain always on receiver. I suspect the many poor product reviews I read was due to dead batteries, just when you need to use the product. After thinking about...