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On Tiny Computers And My Desire For One
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then slap in another gig of ram
and then love it forever
Haven't tried Netflix or Hulu yet, but running some stuff from my USB portable HD worked fine. ~4 hour battery life isn't the best, but it's okay.
MSI makes decent stuff but their customer service leaves much to be desired in comparison to ASUS.
Is that the desktop one that you can screw into the back of a monitor, like where you'd put monitor arm?
those are pretty damn neat, if you combined it with a touchscreen lcd and used it like a media controller.
EDIT: like this:
no the MSI Wind is just a regular netbook
in all truth I REALLY want a mini
but man what the fuck were they thinking with the mouse pad and buttons
now to wait a month to receive it!
I decided to get an ipod touch though. It is rad as hell and does everything I would have used the notebook for, and my real laptop is still in fine shape so I think I came out ahead here.
you gave your girlfriend a freaking car
mysst, let's date
but sadly that should go towards paying off credit cards
try this
save the money
and just buy it with the credit cards
never thought of that one, did you?
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
now I want to buy one too
I got my current laptop in 2003
Good lord man
I can't remember the last time I kept the same computer for 6 years without some kind of upgrade
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
no no no
I've built two desktops in that time
but I still use the laptop for internetting on the couch and whatnot
I was couch-netting with an old sony vaio which weighed too much and had no battery life and burned my legs, hence this replacement!
Do it man, do it! We'll be like brothers!
Brothers, Man!
Internet brothers!
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
It's been about 5 years since I built it, and when I build a new one this one will probably be converted into a media center PC.
and if it were an oven the batteries wouldn't last long enough to reheat a lasagne
is that the old 2133 with the via c-7 processor? those things run notoriously hot.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
i think so, yeah
it's such an awesome little unit otherwise, the keyboard is something like 96% the size of a standard pc keyboard
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
why was that even invented? who thought that was a good idea?
the same people who make their hdtv purchase decisions based on contrast ratios
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
you know
now that you post this I completely remember reading about all of this happening and how you were married and all that
and now I feel like an asshole because I forgot
can we still date?
how's your deepthroat?
If you're planning to install Linux on it (or getting one of the ones with it pre-installed) you absolutely have to download GNOME-Do. It's a application launcher based on OSX's Quicksilver, and it's got a bunch of really, really nice features and plugins. Really handy for navigating around without using the trackpad.
GNOME-Do
Is there a practical purpose for those screens? I have a friend who has one of those on his laptop and I actually prefer his beat up five year old laptop because the screen is like a desktop's and not a mirror.
I've never used Linux and I'm scared of it. Should I be?
anything else good we should know?
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
FEAR MY GIANT E-PENIS
A good 'beginners Linux distro' is one that Naporeon originally suggested to me: Linux Mint.
It's a variation of the standard Ubuntu install that's designed to be easy to use, and look great, too. Installing programs is done throught a nice Application Installer program, and you can get most of the same functionality as you would with a Windows or Mac setup. Admittedly, Mac's overarching software/OS integration is hands down the best out there, but you pay a premium on it.
The Ubuntu Community Forums has a ton of decent people willing to help out, in addition to the many guides and how-tos they've put together.
The icons on the desktop, aside from Firefox and Pidgin, are all shortcuts to SSBs (single-site browsers) created using the Prism extension from Mozilla. Basically I use it for the webapps I use on a day-to-day basis, so it separates them from my web-browsing experience. Currently Prism is in a pretty beta state, as it doesn't natively support Firefox's extensibility (which only effects a couple of the webapps, like Flickr and Youtube)
The icons I grabbed from a Flickr group that creates custom icons for application launchers like Fluid (a OSX SSB program that uses the Webkit rendering engine instead of Mozilla's xul-runner renderer)
If anybody wants one they were all released via Creative Commons and I can email'em or whatever to you for your own use.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.