Blog Eugene Fischer | 26 Dec 2010
As my Asus Eee netbook committed the kind of suicide that fills the room with the smell of burning plastic, I’ve switched to an 11-inch MacBook Air for on-the-go computing. My background on the Asus was an image from Shaun Tan’s Tales Of Outer Suburbia, made available by Tor.com when he was nominated for the Best [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 24 Dec 2010
I woke up to discover a brutal scene in my dining room. Only two days after I acquired my 11″ MacBook Air, it has eliminated all possible threats to its power by savaging the only other ultraportable laptop in the apartment. The smaller, plastic-bodied Asus Eee 1000HE — already weakened by a year of battering [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 18 Sep 2009
The tiny computer in the trio was a Dell Mini 9, which I got for free from a friend who also got it for free. (He was the head of IT for a local construction company, and for a while was a high volume Dell customer. They were apparently handing out base system (4gig SSD, [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 17 Sep 2009
In that picture of two computers ganging up on another, smaller computer, the one in the middle is a Samsung N310, marketed in the US as the Samsung Go. It’s an Intel Atom based netbook with 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig hard drive, and some very nice industrial design. A long time Apple [...]
