Nicolai Wadstrom on Tech & Entrepreneurship

I am in the market for a new laptop, and I am thinking that maybe it’s not going to be a Windows PC, but I would like to get the quality, durability and overall sturdiness that Lenovo Thinkpads give me, but I would like to switch to Mac OS X. I do not think the Apple hardware is superior or better, but since I bought a Mac Mini last year I have gotten to like the Mac OS X operating system, and have gotten quite tired of Windows, Vista has some appealing features, but I would still prefer to Switch Windows XP to Mac OS X than upgrading to Windows Vista for my Laptop that I use for work.

I travel quite a lot and I always carry my laptop with me, so a light and sturdy, well-designed Business laptop like the Thinkpad is what worked very well for me for the last 10 years or so, so Steve Jobs, here’s my wish list for new portable business Macs:

• Make a Tablet Mac as an option, why should one have to run Windows to use a tablet PC?
• Better battery time, the Thinkpads give me up-to 8 (or more) hours of actual run time on one charge (the MacBook homepage says 5.5 hours, people tell me ~ 3 hours is typical).
• Trackpoint, I know most people used the cheaper PC laptops and got used to the pad. But The TrackPoint is addictive and works really well for me, in fact so well, it’s major feature when buying a new laptop (I even have a IBM Trackpoint keyboard for my Mac Mini).
• Better Graphics, I would actually like real graphics performance (not for games but for business apps), like I can get with the Thinkpads, HP’s, Dell’s etc.
• Built-in 3G, why would I have to get a PC to get built-in 3G cards, these are available as standard mini-PCI cards.

So Steve, keep up the good job with the Mac OS X, steal some ideas from Lenovo and build the best portable business Laptops.

Just wanted to link to this speech inspirational speech given by Jeff Pulver today:

You can also see it at Jeff Pulver’s blogg.

Live at Innovation and Technology, started the day with a speech from Jeff Pulver, good and inspirational, thanks Jeff!

Some facts about the Swedish Entrepreneurial climate, after some input during the day; Out of 25 EU countries, Sweden ranks no 18 in number of people owning or running a Business. Then there is a difference between the large international companies and the Mom & Pop stores, but all companies start small…

Sweden and Stockholm holds the promise of being one of the most promising innovation and entrepreneurial centers, with a high concentration of international companies to lure skilled staff from or as early customers, good innovation climate, fairly low salleries and living costs, but…

- High taxes creates fewer Business Angles, compared to most European countries and the US (less rich people in Sweden and a general low risk attitude).
- High labour costs due to high employment taxes (50% for low income, 75% or more for manages etc)
- Government seed funding is very low, compared to the US.

If Sweden could address some or all of these, Sweden and Stockholm in particular holds the promise to be one of the best innovation centers in Europe. Even though being a UK resident, being a Swede and Entrepreneur at heart I take an interest in these matters and I hold high hopes for the new government to change things.

Blogging live from Innovation & Technology, http://innovation-technology.se/

I never followed the “worshiping Steve Jobs clan”, but he is an Entrepreneur that has made a major impact in the tech industry and is an inspirational source for all entrepreneurs or just about anybody.

You can read the speech here.

Check out this interesting Video about what is happening with the Web, I really like the form of expression:

The original is at: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=81