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Size Matters
July 2, 2009 — 1:41 am

I inadvertently left my phone at work on Tuesday night, and tonight I left my 10-inch netbook. So, I pulled out my slowly-falling-apart laptop once I got home, which I hadn’t used in weeks, and at 15.5 inches it now seems comically oversized — kind of like Edith Ann’s rocking chair.

It can be inconvenient at times using such a small display as a matter of course, but now that I’ve gotten used to it, the lightness, portability, and easy handling of the smaller-sized model easily win out for most of the situations in which I want to use a computer at home. I can’t do much in the way of cutting-edge gaming or video editing on a netbook — but I’ve never been much of a gamer, and at any rate, I have a fancy new Power Mac at work for CPU-intensive tasks that are actually productive. In the meantime, most of the time, I’m sold on the sheer usefulness of tiny, tiny computers.

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  1. I was an early adopter, buying the Asus eee 701, and after the novelty wore off the 701 _was_ a bit too small and under-equipped. Still, this early netbook remains serviceable enough for surfing, email and text docs on the go, and lighter than its sequels. In any case, the Asus eee 1000HE netbook with XP OS is fine. There have been smaller laptops before the eee and competitors, only not so cheap. I waited for years for these developments and of course the youngsters will just take the tech for granted, dadblame ’em… The stories I could tell…used to be, you had to use a crank to get your manual typewriter started…

    Comment by DavidMBrowndotcom — August 3, 2009 @ 11:22 pm

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