Gris, wait for the price to come down: [link]
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dcp - Nov 27, 2007 2:53:37 pm PST #3588 of 25497
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Jessica - Nov 27, 2007 2:57:37 pm PST #3589 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I so completely missed the meeting on eBook readers. For the cost of a Kindle, I could buy 75+ mass market paperbacks.
Gris - Nov 27, 2007 3:14:54 pm PST #3590 of 25497
Hey. New board.
For the price of an iPod classic, I could buy a cheap CD player and 30+ used CDs at Amoeba. For the price I paid for my 3rd-gen, back in the day, make that 50+ such CDs.
For the price of my Macbook Pro, I could've bought a Mac Mini and a bunch of neat software.
For the price of my filet mignon, I could've bought 300 packs of ramen. (Okay, that one is a seriously flawed metaphor... but I wanted three! The point is: convenience is awesome.)
From that article:
If I'm going to carry a shoulder bag - and I think I'd have to in order to carry the Kindle
Really? It's 10 ounces and the size of a DVD case. Smaller and lighter than most trade paperbacks. If you need a bag for it, you need a bag for books.
Okay, sorry, I'm stopping with the Kindle-oost now. I'm almost certain my mother already ordered me one for Christmas, so I'll report back when I have one in my hot little hand.
Ginger - Nov 27, 2007 6:06:45 pm PST #3591 of 25497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It would be a great thing for a trip. I always haul several pounds of books out of fear of having nothing to read. I'd have to try it out, though. I tested some of the earlier e-books and the problem was that they didn't "turn" the page fast enough. I'm a fast reader and it was actively annoying.
Jessica - Nov 27, 2007 6:15:24 pm PST #3592 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The point is: convenience is awesome.
Which is only really relevant if you find eBooks convenient. I just don't like them.
tommyrot - Nov 27, 2007 6:18:57 pm PST #3593 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This one has the new "paper" display that supposedly is much easier on the eyes than regular LDC. I haven't seen one (or pictures) up close to see for myself....
Gudanov - Nov 28, 2007 5:07:28 am PST #3594 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping
We now have a laptop, well it's mostly for my wife. A Toshiba with a gig of ram, 120GB hard drive, DVD burner, and Pentium Dual Core processor (A T2310, which I don't know much about, I think it is the mobile form of the E series processors which would make it a budget version of the Core 2 architecture) for $530.
This is my first experience with Vista. Vista seems OK, but a bit sluggish with start up and shutdown compared with XP. That may be more laptop vs. desktop though. I might bump up the memory to 2 gig anyway, it looks like it would only cost about $50.
An unexpected bonus, out of the box it can hook up over wireless and stream all the video on audio stored on my mythbox.
tommyrot - Nov 28, 2007 5:09:55 am PST #3595 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yesterday I read an article arguing that Vista was a crappy OS for low-end laptops, as they don't have the power to run it well. The article said that Vista generally needs 2 gig of RAM to be stable and what-not.
Article said that XP or Linux were much better for low-end laptops....
tommyrot - Nov 28, 2007 5:15:45 am PST #3596 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An awesome idea from xkcd: [link]
Gudanov - Nov 28, 2007 5:16:53 am PST #3597 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping
I dunno, it seems to be running Vista premium just fine. Windows pop up promptly, programs start up ok, Firefox doesn't seem sluggish, it streams video without stuttering. The only couple of things I've really noticed is that start up is slow compared to my desktop, but it's not "go grab a cup of coffee" slow. Also, picture thumbnails are much slower than my desktop running Kubuntu, but it isn't really painful.