Eee PC update: I went to lunch with the Eee PC (and hub came along too). Tiny Laptop is, indeed, tiny: [link]
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amych - Mar 14, 2008 8:55:47 am PDT #5147 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Mar 14, 2008 9:00:21 am PDT #5148 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Who's a cute widdle waptop? You're a cute widdle waptop! Yes you are!"
How hard is it to type on those keys?
flea - Mar 14, 2008 9:03:17 am PDT #5149 of 25501
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This actually looks better for my work project than either an iPhone or the godawful UMPC.... so, can we borrow it? (I kid. But maybe we'll put it in the budget for next year.)
amych - Mar 14, 2008 9:03:50 am PDT #5150 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Not bad, actually. It's touch-typeable, and I don't have tiny hands -- it took a few minutes to get the feel of it, but not that much worse than adjusting to any other new keyboard. Arrow keys, shift, and the like are big enough to be useful. The top row (f-keys overloaded with various control settings, like a lot of laptop keyboards) is really pretty tiny, but of course those aren't not used as much.
-t - Mar 14, 2008 9:04:05 am PDT #5151 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's so cute. I have been vaguely thinking that something like that would be a good replacement for my laptop when it finally gives up, but I didn't know they were readily available. Sweet.
flea - Mar 14, 2008 9:05:31 am PDT #5152 of 25501
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This is the photo that got me... [link]
DCJensen - Mar 14, 2008 9:06:33 am PDT #5153 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
The same model Eee PC with half the HDD capacity is only $299.
I wonder how many people upgrade the HDD immediately? I see some have done so with the RAM.
amych - Mar 14, 2008 9:06:38 am PDT #5154 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
can we borrow it?
Nuh-uh. But I'm thinking of bringing it in on Monday for a Staff Meeting show and tell, so I'd be happy to show it off to you if I do.
amych - Mar 14, 2008 9:10:53 am PDT #5155 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The same model Eee PC with half the HDD capacity is only $299.
That one's actually the older model that (I hear?) is being replaced by ours. The major disadvantage to the 2GB model is that the RAM is soldered in; on the new ones you can upgrade the RAM (which is what we're planning to do).
Upgrading the storage capacity is just a matter of adding an SD card, which the OS will automount as a second drive. There's no HD at all -- it's all solid-state, and so ridiculously quiet/cool/fast to boot.
tommyrot - Mar 14, 2008 9:12:34 am PDT #5156 of 25501
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 is the photo that got me... [link]
Yeah. I had no idea MacBook Pros came in such a huge size.
No really, it's like an optical illusion: Instead of the EeePC looking tiny, the Mac looks huge.