The choice of tablets has pretty much been narrowed down to the iPad 2 (or, with an outside chance, the iPad 3; both seem to be more or less the same deal for the purpose of this comparison), or the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

iPad Pro:- Support. Lots and lots of support. If not from relatives, then the Apple Store taking up floor space of the ( Read more... )

Since my netbook is getting obsolete (4GB of internal SSD memory does not help when the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix requires 4.2GB or so), and the battery is dying horribly (from 6-8 hours of function to 30 minutes), I'm looking to replace it. It's been with me for about five years, so it's probably time. And I've had so much use out of it that I ( Read more... )

The keyboard is really small. I'll be typoing a lot before I get used to it.

I made very sure I had the number and address of the local service centre (opposite Funan). Supposedly Asus products are rock-solid dependable, but I have this entropic anti-electronic field or something.

I think the Linux distro is Xandros. I don't know how to get to ( Read more... )

Planning to get a really, really small and lightweight notebook.

All I need is a word-processing function, sufficient hard disk space for said function, and a music player of some sort for mp3s. Internet capability will be nice, and sought after, but not completely essential ( Read more... )

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Over the years, I have had the following happen to me ( Read more... )

As of yesterday, for some reason as yet unknown to me, whenever I try browsing on certain sites, the top level domain gets ignored ( Read more... )

I think I may have figured out why the computer sometimes crashes unexpectedly.

It's buggy, literally. Ants got into it, for no reason I can discern.

And by this I mean Non-Linear Editing, as in Adobe Premiere and suchlike ( Read more... )

Warcraft 3 refuses to run on this computer, and I do not know why.

Basically, the sound for the opening movie plays, but no graphics are shown. After the sound of the movie finishes, nothing. Black screen all the way ( Read more... )