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Cheap as in Crap
Just over a year ago, I quipped that Acer – the world’s most successful vendor of slightly sub-par but very cheap computer hardware – didn’t have any more sub-par vendors to buy after acquiring...
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“Pocket-Sized”
It’s a bit of a stretch to think of the Vaio netbook as pocket-sized, but you can fit more of it in your pocket than most other computers… Click the photo to see it at full size. By the bye, a little...
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Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck
If you’re pressed for time, the graphic below – which takes its inspiration from these articles by Kathy “Creating Passionate Users” Sierra — captures the spirit of this article rather nicely: If you...
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Like I Said, Netbooks Suck
My article from a couple of weeks ago, Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck, got a lot of reactions from both the “You’re right!” and “You’re dead wrong!” camps (the article on Global Nerdy got...
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Netbooks, R.I.P.
Another guy who shares my belief that netbooks are a transitional category that will eventually get absorbed into what we consider to be notebook computer is Engadget’s Michael Gartenberg, who wrote in...
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Netbook 2009 == Laptop 2005 (or, “Netbooks Suck, Part 3)
Here’s an idea sent to me by a friend of mine who’s not a computer programmer, but a “suit” working at a Bay Street firm in Toronto (for those of you not from Canada, “Bay Street” is Canadian for...
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Scenes from the Windows 7 Hardware Media Event / Appearing Tonight on InnerSPACE
Here are some photos I took at Monday’s Windows 7 media event showing off the latest Windows 7-compatible computers from six vendors: The participating vendors were: Dell Hewlett-Packard Lenovo LG Sony...
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A Little Netbook Experiment
“The Horror! The Horror!” “d00d,” began the capitalization- and punctuation-free email I received on Sunday, “coding horror atwood is totaly [sic] waling on ur azz”. Curious to see exactly how Jeff was...
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Netbook Experiment Report #1
In case you hadn’t read my article from Friday, I’m conducting a little experiment this week – I’m seeing what it’s like to use a “netbook“ computer (a Dell Latitude 2100, to be specific) as my primary...
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