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Kmart starts selling a $190 Android-based netbook
Computers don't get much cheaper than this: Kmart is now selling an Android-powered netbook by Augen for a mere $190. With a 10.2-inch screen, 1024x600 display and weighing in at 1.8lbs, it looks about how you'd expect a netbook to look.
Of course, for that cheap, you're getting a machine that's slower than most high-end smartphones. It's got a 800MHz ARM11-based chip and a mere 256MB of RAM. There's 2GB of storage on board, although that can be expanded via an SDHC memory card slot. Overall, it might be worth upping your budget a bit and getting something a touch more powerful, but then again, you can't really argue with a sub-$200 netbook.
Umm a lot of standard Netbooks in the $220 range. An Android netbook needs to be either cheap or more powerful than described.
We recently transferred some old home movies to DVD and Mom wants me to upload some clips to youtube. Will I need to buy video editing software to do this?
No - you can rip the video files with Handbrake and upload them straight from there. If there isn't a setting called "YouTube" any of the various Quicktime formats will work.
[eta: Actually I'm not sure if Handbrake will let you select clips or just whole chapters. If you're on a Mac MPEG Streamclip is my preferred way to clip out DVDs because you can set in/out points wherever you want.]
I need to buy an HDMI cable for CJ's PS3. Any tips or good sources. I have done some goggling and I see a wide range of prices. Does it make that big of a difference? My instinct is to find the cheapest one for the length I need. Advice?
I wholeheartedly recommend buy.com. i just got a co-worker two 6 foot gold-plated HDMI cables for $9 with s/h included.
Amazon also has a vendor that has very cheap cables.
