January 7, 200917 yr New job this year, after 5 years walking 10 minutes to work, now I'm a daily commuter, 73 Km./1 hour 15 min. up and down in a boring bus (Rented and payed by me and by some of my coworkers of my public administration !!), but this year we can use the new Netbooks, For trials, and as Xmas present from me to me, I purchased an Asus Eee PC 1000H (Warning, The "H" matters for obtain the full specifications, 10,2" screen, 1 Gb RAM, expandible to 2 Gb, 160 Gb. HD, Intel Atom 1,6 Ghz processor, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 of, I think, 256 Mb, and wireless IEEE 802.11n/draft-n), and, as temporary conclusions: - Cramped keyboard and screen, but usable. - Some problems with Microsoft Office, Word and Access, slowish and some files refuse to open, but .... - Harpoon HCE fully playable , at least for now .... Some others similar experiences ?
January 7, 200917 yr New job this year, after 5 years walking 10 minutes to work, now I'm a daily commuter, 73 Km./1 hour 15 min. up and down in a boring bus (Rented and payed by me and by some of my coworkers of my public administration !!), but this year we can use the new Netbooks, For trials, and as Xmas present from me to me, I purchased an Asus Eee PC 1000H (Warning, The "H" matters for obtain the full specifications, 10,2" screen, 1 Gb RAM, expandible to 2 Gb, 160 Gb. HD, Intel Atom 1,6 Ghz processor, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 of, I think, 256 Mb, and wireless IEEE 802.11n/draft-n), and, as temporary conclusions: - Cramped keyboard and screen, but usable. - Some problems with Microsoft Office, Word and Access, slowish and some files refuse to open, but .... - Harpoon HCE fully playable , at least for now .... Some others similar experiences ? My main PC is a Toshiba Satellite A300 : Intel Duo Core T5750 @ 2.0 Ghz (so 4.0 Ghz in "total"), 3 gigs of DDR Ram (max 4), 250 gb, ATI HD3470 256 DDR vram + up to 1 gig in shared RAM for textures, full dolby 5.1 hw support for sound, firewire, USB 2.0, DVD-RAM burner For less than a 1000 Can, including around 14-15% of various VATs. Running Vista 64 Home Premium, and the more I use Vista 64, the more I like it : so far, it's approaching the rock solid performance of my old steady circa 2000 windows2k based old workstation. The one after wasn't as stable (circa 2004), still running 2k. And I had a mac laptop running MacOS X that was on the dud list for a complete recall, something I didn't catch before the recall option was terminated. Oh, lest I forget, I'm not a fan of Apple or MS : platform agnostic. I haven't properly experienced recent versions of MacOS X, but to give credit where credit is due, I believe MS is doing a stellar job these days, compared to the "bad old days". Vista is imho on par with MacOS X in qualities and defects : both are bloated beyond reason, and rock solid with proper hardware and configuration. I still use an external USB keyboard for the keypad when playing any Harpoon game, TOAW, and some other games that need a keypad, since I can't stand the virtual numpads on notebook keyboards. I always use an external Logitech MX500 mouse (USB with a wire ), as I haven't yet found a touchpad that doesn't go nuts due to my fingers ( I guess I'm a hot one, and radiate too much for precise touch padding, lol 8p) The touchpad is turned off when mouse is present. I "authorized" the 60 day trial of Office 2007 that came with it, and hate it, well the UI : won't use it. I installed the latest Open Office and haven't looked back since : it's come such a long way that I have not installed my copy of Office 2000 on this computer I love that my old PC (with 3 HDs in it, 2 being from the dead 2004 PC) is now a file and app server (through VNC) that I access without any wires, so I can work from wherever I want in my flat, even in the garden, or the front steps, weather permitting Freaked my cat out the other day with the integrated digicam and mic : noticeable delay between capture and playback in "webcam" mode, so he was seeing himself in the screen, and hearing his meows (and mine) thrown back at him after the delay... He was freaked in a way that never happens with music, tele or xbox games Want I want now, is miniaturized (walkman, ipod size) portable computer that uses my glasses as a HUD (or focused direct optic nerve stimuli), and hand gestures for interaction (think Wii style controllers (3d) but thin bracelets around your wrists, or some system that track your hands and digits) so I can do everything computing wise anywhere Incidentally, we should see that sort of thing within a decade : all the tech is there to make it happen I want to write/code by speaking out loud (incidentally, when I'm writing seriously, or "artistically" (fiction), I always say it out loud, and try it our vocally first, trick learned from my father when I worked in the copy editing/translating/word processing field) : I've typed enough for many lifetimes A little off the cuff commentary spurred on by your tale of mobility 8p Cheers !
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