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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.
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.
What's an easy way to produce better looking and higher resolution trend graphs than Excel?
Friends moving to Japan (and on the way home visiting China, Indian, Korea, several African nations, and Greece and Rome.
Should they buy their international cellphone here, or would they be better off getting one on the plane. I suspect that regardless, they will have to buy extra sims during part of their trip. True?
If they do buy a phone here, which one should they get?
Digital video camera - buy here or wait until they get to Japan? Unlike a phone, there is no question of needing one for the trip. They can use their still camera until they get to Japan if buying it there would make more sense.
Also, what kind of digital videocam should they buy, regardless of where they buy it?
Thanks
Gar
They'll need an unlocked GSM phone. That's what will be sold by default abroad--I figure you can get those here as long as you go to a cellphone store and not a carrier's outlet. It may be possible to do the whole trip on one SIM--that has the advantage of having just the one phone number and minimising the effort of going shopping. Changing SIMs will be cheaper, and for a stay of a week or more, I'd do it.
Japan will have the best phones, though. The market's equalising, but they started out ahead of Europe which was ahead of us.
Couldn't recommend a phone without knowing what they'd want to do with it. I just wouldn't spend much money on it here.
Feh! I have finally uploaded all of my CDs. Even with judicious editing of various songs, it can no longer sync because I have too much music. Feh! It's only 10 gig! I NEED the 16 gig iPhone. DON'T TELL ME I DON'T KNOW WHAT VIETNAM WAS LIKE!!
I feel your pain. My iTunes library is now north of 200 GB and the largest iPod made is only 160.
t weeps
I weep for all of you. But then I suffered with an 4-gig iPod Mini for years.
Somewhere I have a little case with a handle on top. It would hold 20-25 45's so you could take music with you to a friends house.
Uphill... both ways... in a blizzard.
Somewhere I have a little case with a handle on top. It would hold 20-25 45's so you could take music with you to a friends house.
We had one of those! My brother and I used it to carry our James Blish books of adaptations of Star Trek episodes.
But we didn't use it to carry our books to friends' houses, on account of all the blizzards (both ways).