Netbooks - Hardware CRIMP?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM

Apologies for the confusion. That should have been “offering more than twice a netbook’s specifications for less than TWICE the price”, i.e. that the specifications per dollar are much better. Sorry.

I took a look at the NC10, which naturally hasn’t reached this area of the world yet and it looks good enough. I would definitely check how expandable it is though. You might also want to check Lenovo’s S10: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/notebooks/ideapad/s-series

XP is my OS of choice as well, until I manage to migrate to Linux. I was fortunate enough to buy my Vaio just before Vista kicked in. The same notebook with Vista would have been virtually paralysed.

I myself gave up on doing serious work through PDAs since my Psion Series 5 collapsed; I have never found something as effective since. I also need a workable keyboard and some rather specific applications. The one program I do keep on my Symbian phone is Projekt, a quite powerful outliner comparable only to ListPro.

Regarding your original discussion on habit changes, I should note that my own decision to gradually switch to Linux reflects an effort to implement a ‘less is more’ attitude—in addition to a similar economic approach. Ideally, I would want to work through a focused environment such as Tasktop, with a minimal writing tool such as Brainstorm (as I do now) or a Wiki, with all my reference information on the file system or an all-grabbing tool like Evernote, etc. Many of these tools are already cross-platform and web-aware, so I don’t think I am (anymore) much ahead of my time :-)

alx