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.
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.
The point is: convenience is awesome.
Which is only really relevant if you find eBooks convenient. I just don't like them.
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....
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.
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....
An awesome idea from xkcd: [link]
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.
Gud, where did you get your new laptop? (Not that I need a laptop. Cause I don't.)
I have a new laptop!
Not that I'm any good for sources, as it came from The Nice IT Folk At Work.
