Was sitting here at Big Ed’s tonight, playing on the new Macbook Pro laptop when I decided to check out the podcasts for ideas. Lo and behold, you can’t hear podcasts if you completely forget to pay for the hosting on the site they’re posted on, right?
It’s not like anyone cares, but I’ll see about getting them re-posted, or maybe starting over soon Gotta justify keeping the iMac now that the laptop is here…
Ok, everyone flash back to a time seemingly long ago. You know…. Christmas 2008.
As I seem to recall, we were awash with advertisements for sub $400, if not $300 laptops. Sure, they weren’t usually Core 2 Duo machines with the latest and greatest (though I do recall one or two of those slipping through the cracks occassionally).
Insert the fancy Wayne’s World flashback special effect to today and tell me, where have all those deals gone? See? Perhaps bad timing on my part, but I’ve ALMOST decided that I’d like a cheap laptop for carrying through the house to use for everything between cooking, to ebay’ing and imdb’ing before I forget what I was trying to do on the way to my iMac in the computer room.
I’m not talking about needing a full ruggedized, killer game laptop. Just something with decent resolution and a good browser.
Enter the “netbook”. The nemesis of all men with large hands and fat fingers. Seems I can’t turn around without tripping over one, but I still have major concerns. Dell sold their Ubuntu Linux one yesterday for $199 on sale, but that’s with 4GB worth of SSD for a hard drive, and only 1gb of RAM..
“Only 1GB of RAM”. Is anyone out there old enough to realize the amount of irony in that comment versus 20 years ago when computers and the Internet were really in their infancy for the average person?
Anyway, I digress. Windows being what it is, 1GB of RAM simply isn’t enough. I can’t however speak for Ubuntu Linux, so — probably to my chagrin — I didn’t buy one.
Anyone out there know whether the “netbook” has surplanted the reasonably priced laptop forever?
