HW Hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on The Setup

There. He pretty much summarize what's wrong with the iPhone.<p>"I’m personally not a fan of the iPhone; the battery life sucks, it is too bandwidth inefficient and the virtual keyboard is pokey and requires you stay in dictionary words, which is terrible for typing borrowed-words in other languages and swear words in my own language. The iPhone is more of a toy for entertainment value and photo management, but that role is already filled by my Nintendo DSi and my camera."

Sigh. "The most important aspect of this laptop is its display. It has a 1920 x 1200 15.4” TFT LCD." The new 15" MBPs max out 1680x1050 even with the additional option.

"well-prepared" does not even start to describe this guy! He has links to all the devices and everything, so now I have to buy some of this stuff.

aka "bunnie", the guy who become famous for hacking Xbox, IIRC.

<i>I also carry the ultraslim AC/DC combo adapter that works with every airplane power outlet I’ve seen to date.</i><p>I only travel via plane a couple times a year and mostly try to sleep, but I had no clue that some seats offered power outlets. Now I do! That could come in handy one day.<p><a href="http://www.seatguru.com/articles/in-seat_laptop_power.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.seatguru.com/articles/in-seat_laptop_power.php</a>

<i>It seems strange to expend 80 MB of RAM just to play an MP3.</i><p>I liked that bit a lot; iTunes is gigantic resource hog.

Nice. I like 'The Setup' and understand that he's looking for interesting people, not interesting setups, but all the same, I'm a little tired of seeing 'MacBook Pro with 30 inch cinema display'.

I like the fact that he focuses on protecting his hands. Kinesis keyboard+dvorak layout seems like a very good idea, and hopefully someday I will get to afford a kinesis keybard

I agree with almost everything Bunnie says, except:<p>1) I use Strawberry Perl instead of Cygwin. I'm scared of Cygwin. The only Unix utility I have on my Windows XP box is wget.<p><a href="http://strawberryperl.com" rel="nofollow">http://strawberryperl.com</a><p>2) I can't get myself to jump to widescreen Thinkpad. I like reading everything as high up on the screen as I can. I'm worried about my neck!

<i>&#62; I don’t personally use gmail, and I never will trust my email to a mail service that actively searches your email and tries to give you ads.</i><p>Do the people still complaining about this six years later not use spam filters?

Hard to believe the VX Nano is discontinued. I love mine, though not everyone loves the convertible scrollwheel. Hopefully the other models are somewhat comparable.

"my hands are too valuable to waste on a cheap keyboard."

Pretty extensive, full of goodies.

Well informed, full of good sense. Couple of points that stuck:<p><i>an aftermarket Samsung 256 GB SSD</i><p>I've seen a couple of sneers at those SSDs (which Apple also seems to use) as not the best performers. He may know better or just think they're good enough. (I can wait for the dust to settle.)<p><i>The only Apple product I use is their tiny USB power adapter</i><p>The one with the KindleDX looks even smaller - barely larger than a plug, my additional US-to-Euro plug adapter is about the same size. The small print says it's made by Flextronics.<p>P.S. I was straining my eyes to figure if the scope in the photo was a Tektronix. The text says it is.