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Parallel thinking
With the current round of notebooks for teaching staff, and after many years teaching VCE IT with Toshiba, ACER, IBM and then Levono laptops, I have finally decided to opt for the Apple notebook option. Last week I was really impressed with a colleague running Parallels on his iBook who was able to seamlessly switch between OSX to XP applications ( Read more... ) -
Living in the fast lane
I have one minor brag with a computer that takes under 30 sec to boot up and login. Imagine a student collecting a laptop computer from a class box, returning to their desk and immediately using it. Joy!
The ASUS eeePC uses solid state disks for permanent data storage device with no movable parts. The highly customised operating system (Linux ( Read more... ) -
Small footprints
There is a lot of work in these tiny computers at the other end of the market. Similar small footprint and they will retail for about the price of a pocket digital camera (~$350 to $450 ( Read more... )
