Comments | cheshirefeline: Netbooks FTW

cheshirefeline

Netbooks FTW

Feb 24, 2009 21:31

The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time

... Netbooks have ended the performance wars. It used to be that when you went to an electronics store to buy a computer, you picked the most powerful one you could afford. Because, who knew? Maybe someday you'd need to play a cutting-edge videogame or edit your masterpiece indie flick ( Read more... )

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msbrightside February 24 2009, 14:31:34 UTC

This post looks oddly familiar ;)

I can't wait for my HP Mini-note 2140 to arrive...!

cheshirefeline February 24 2009, 22:48:24 UTC

Haha, yes it is!

And from yet another friend's blog is how to make a hackintosh out of a Dell Mini 9. Damn, that's something I'd so do.

msbrightside February 25 2009, 08:38:12 UTC

Oh, nifty!!

I need a Windoze machine though, just because there are some Windows apps I need from time to time, and I think Parallels is a half-baked solution at best...

smackeral February 24 2009, 15:37:08 UTC

Denise Li likes this. *thumbs up*

so ... which planet are the geeks gonna move to?

cheshirefeline February 24 2009, 22:49:18 UTC

YOURS! Hahaha

smackeral February 25 2009, 01:40:24 UTC

my grammar winz teh interwebz.

delightt February 25 2009, 00:58:51 UTC

Interesting. I'm not sold on the cloud yet, though.

triciaseow February 26 2009, 07:17:31 UTC

yeah. i read in the tech section of the economist that with hard times ahead, tech firms are forced to work less on providing more at the same price (cuz the tech cycle is so fast these days) than on providing the same (or less) for less.

hey it costs less to do the same thing! i'm all for it. i really don't need the latest greatest tech toys.