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Archive for the Tag 'netbook'

Blog | 26 Dec 2010

New Computer, New Desktop

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 | 24 Dec 2010

Night of the Long Screwdrivers

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 | 18 Sep 2009

And What About The Tiny Computer?

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 | 17 Sep 2009

Samsung N310 (Go)

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 [...]