Text 53992, 54 rader
Skriven 2009-03-09 20:48:58 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 53987 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: 8.3" laptop
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August Abolins -> Jean Parrot wrote:
 AA> Jean Parrot -> Alan Zisman said..

 JP>>     On a side note, my #1 daughter got an 8.3" laptop, an Asus c/w
 AA> 160 G
 JP>> of SS HD. Her first question was: Do you have a USB CD-ROM ?  I
 AA> managed
 JP>> to get one going, using the control connector from a 3.5" USB HD box.
 JP>> Necessity is the mother of invention.

 AA> I test-drove one of the Acer netbooks at a local store.  Cute - is all I
 AA> can say.  The 8"/9" screen is just too small for my liking. I like to
 AA> read the entire width of a webpage without squinting or peering at the
 AA> screen up close.  I like to lean back and still be able to read.

 AA> Meanwhile, I procured a Used/Offlease 14" HP NC6220 laptop for a friend:
 AA> 1gb ram, 60gb hdd, XPp, 1400x1050 rez screen, battery good for 2.5
 AA> hours, dvdrw burner, 3 USB ports, S-video out, SD/SC card reader -- all
 AA> for less than $480 before shipping.  I paid an extra $40 to get a full
 AA> year warranty.

 AA> The NC6220 is quality piece of gear.  It even has a similar joy-stick
 AA> button on the keyboard to manipulate the pointer.  The keyboard has a
 AA> nice solid feel too - unlike the cheap Walmart Acer that felt very loose
 AA> and plasticy.


The netbook popularity is only partly about price-- certainly one can get a
usable 14" or 15" notebook for more or less $500-- even CDN$500... while a 9"
netbook may come in around $400 or higher.

And when you start to compare specs the full-sized notebook comes out ahead-
larger screen with much higher pixel count, faster (and multicore) CPU, larger
hard drive (especially since many netbooks come with small flash drives and no
other hard drive), built-in optical drive, full-sized keyboard and more
convenient trackpad, etc etc.

But by being significantly smaller and lighter, netbooks may be serving a very
different function-- being taken places where people were less likely to want
to lug around a full-sized notebook.

Similarly, larger digital cameras take much better photos than the models built
into mobile phones. But because cell phone users always have that camera with
them, they're more likely to take photos in places that they haven't bothered
to bring their larger, more capable camera.

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