The latest introduction was the Nvidia Ion. A platform for netbooks and ultra mobile personal computer (UMPC) that consist of Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M chipset and Intel Atom Processor. They claimed it would support 1080 HD video playback. 

Days later, Intel says their going to release its Atom N2780 (1.66GHz) that would support 720p HD playback (via hardware based 720p video decoder) 

I thought netbooks are supposed to be a cost-effective, low power consumption platform? I know that companies would put every shiny features on it. But isn’t 720p or 1080p playback in a 10-inch netbooks a bit overkill? I don’t know about you all, but personally for me I’m not comfortable watching those HD videos in a netbook. I prefer watching in a home cinema or something like that (not that I have one, but having a home cinema would be nice

And what about battery life? one of my reason on buying a netbook is long lasting battery life, doesn’t HD video playback consume more power? So they should focusing on making a better and smarter technologies for minimizing power consumption on netbooks instead. 

That’s just some of my 2 cents regarding this HD competition on netbooks that come up recently. Comments are welcome.

Why the Air apps you ask? well in my daily activities I used multiple platforms, Windows for office works, Mac for everything else. So multi platform solutions using Air brought me constant user interface for those clients that I mention above.

The only platform-based desktop client that I used as frequent as the above Air apps is Twitterrific, one of the simplest twitter client for Mac. Twitterrific is a simple yet a nice client. (You can see their nice features on their homepage) I use their latest 3.1 version.

The thing is, although it’s merely a simple (though powerful) client, it has it’s flaw. A flaw that I wish the developers could fix in the future versions. These are some of my .. I don’t know, rant? Probably like a wishlist about Twitterrific:

• Please, put a retweet button. Retweet is a common feature on a twitter client. Many users are using retweet in their daily tweeting activities. So it should be there.
• Fix the favorite button. The “Add this tweet as favorite” button doesn’t seem to work at all. That’s a very minus point for you, twitterrific. Please fix it, this is very vital.
• I know you probably wants us to see our friends as personal, but sometimes showing their full name rather than their username is a bit confusing. When I follow new user, I prefer remembering his username. Say for instance I follow a @johntheawesome, I probably wouldn’t notice that his full name is Jonathan Walker Davis Jr. So username info is important too.
• Last one, a friend of mine wishes a separate replies and dm’s tab. But probably that makes Twitterrific less simple, right?

I still have big faith on you, Twitterrific. Please don’t let me down.

It comes with 3 flavor the 8GB, white 16GB, and black 16GB. I’m guessing the price will be between 9 million IDR to 12 million IDR. I haven’t had a clue about the payment term, probably via a data plan or something like that.

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So I’m expecting this iPhone enthusiastically. No, I won’t buy it in this near present. Don’t have that kind of budget yet. But I’m expecting some sort iPhone fanatics to emerge here too. You see, iPhone has become a phenomenon in the world, especially in the US, everyone understands that. But will it be a hype here in Indonesia? I’m expecting that too be true? Why? because I’m bored seeing Blackberry becoming overly hyped around here. It saddens that some (or many) people bought BB just because it’s the trend right now. Please iPhone, bring your magical charm here too. It’s good seeing one brand compete with another. At least there’s two of them. There can’t be only one.

PS: thanks @aulia and @amirk for the heads-up!

Now I have in my hand an MSI Wind U100 1.6Ghz Atom Powered netbook with Windows XP pre-installed. Without further a do I installed OSX86 (it was the MacOSXWind version specialized on MSI Wind)

Thoughts:

• It detects almost every peripheral in there, except the Wifi device. Why? because the latest series of U100 was equipped with Atheros Wifi card, not the usual Realtek card. They only had a Realtek driver yet.
• The mic-out, and line-out wasn’t detected properly. Still finding a way to solve this issues.
• Sleep, restart, and shutdown features were great. No errors encountered.
• You’ll get the typical OSX 10.5 Leopard user experience.

So on the next day I ask MSI if I could change the wifi module. They happily helped me changing the module to a Realtek one. Nice service there, MSI. Now I could use the wifi feature once again, although not in an Airport kind a way.

All in all, been using this WindOSX86 for about a week now. I can say that I’m happy of what it provides. Plain old OSX 10.5 in a 10-inch display. Quite nice as a Macbook nano of some sort.

Other infos:

• [BoingBoing] Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart (updated)
• [Modaco] Complete Guide on Installing OSX Leopard on your MSI Wind
• [Makezine] Install OSX on a Netbook