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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Franci Penov : Hardware</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/tags/Hardware/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Hardware</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Paid drivers?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/2004/01/30/65070.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:65070</guid><dc:creator>Franci Penov</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/comments/65070.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/commentrss.aspx?PostID=65070</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=65070</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;If you have Pocket PC or Palm, chances are you've seen the Pocketop wireless foldable keyboard. At a very reasonable price you get a great product. If you use your PDA everyday to enter a lot of information, you will find it probably the best $79 bucks you spent for peripherals.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Or might turn out to be the useles device you ever bought... unless you are ready to cough some more dough. The reason - every piece of hardware is as good as the drivers you get with it. Otherwice it's just a scrap of plastic you can use to bang your head with.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In the case of Pocketop's keyboard you have to buy the drivers for additional $10 to $20. The price just jumped up with 12.5% to 25%. And if you change your device, you might as well face another 12.5% to 25% increase int he price.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I am sooo looking forward to the moment when my cable company will send me the cable box and small note that I could download the software for it for the small amount of $30...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=65070" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/tags/Software/default.aspx">Software</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/tags/Hardware/default.aspx">Hardware</category></item><item><title>Foldable displays</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/2004/01/27/63678.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:63678</guid><dc:creator>Franci Penov</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/comments/63678.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/commentrss.aspx?PostID=63678</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=63678</wfw:comment><description>Boston.com reports: Philips have &lt;A href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/01/26/philips_creates_foldable_screens_for_e_newspapers/"&gt;foldable displays ready for production&lt;/A&gt;. (via &lt;A href="http://www.markme.com/jd/"&gt;JD on MX&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=63678" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/francip/archive/tags/Hardware/default.aspx">Hardware</category></item></channel></rss>