Re: Writers' rooms

In article <6iohuiFrls2nU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Shana Rosenfeld <shana@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David Friedman wrote:
In article <m1u9c4h3s3sum4equlua81b5sm3e3nu2im@xxxxxxx>,
James A. Donald <jamesd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Diem <diem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think I can swing more than one laptop - how do you switch
work in progress? Via memory stick, or through a network? When I
change from the pc to the spouse's laptop and back again, I keep
forgetting about the network and write to flash drive instead. Then I
forget where I put flash drive and have two different versions of work
on two different computers. Spouse gives me pitying look. :)
The Acer Aspire is a subnotebook, which means it is intended as a
convenient highly portable travel notebook, not intended for use as a
main computer, intended for use on your knee, not your desk. It is
intended as a travel computer for the family with quite a few
computers.

I certainly prefer my desktop to any of the subnotebooks. On the other
hand, the Acer Aspire One, unlike the other 9" subnotes, has an adequate
keyboard, so I don't think it would be a problem to use it as one's main
machine for writing, email and the like. It's inadequate for many games,
and, of course, bigger screens are nice even for writing.

There are also 10" notebooks from Asus and MSI that seem to have
adequate keyboards.

As the proud owner of a 10" Asus Eee (it was cute! I hugged it and
squeezed it and call it George!) I find that the only problem I have
with the keyboard is the right shift key. It is slightly off in
position; I keep hitting the enter or an arrow key when I'm trying to
use the shift.

That was my problem with the (9") Asus eee 900, which I sent off to
college with my daughter, she being a fast hunt and peck typist who
isn't bothered by it. I didn't think it would be a problem with the
1000, which has a bigger keyboard, but it sounds as though I was wrong.

But I've gotten more than four hours of use from it before recharging,
however, this is with bluetooth and the webcam turned off and the screen
brightness lowered a good bit.

It won't replace my regular laptop, but it may be my traveling machine.

Yesterday the inventory of Asus Aspire One 120GB machines at the local
Microcenter went from zero, where it had been for a long time, to 85, so
today I drove over and bought one. So far I have installed Firefox and
Open Office and am in the process of setting it up to dual boot with
Ubuntu. I'm also downloading the restore disk for the Linux version of
the Aspire, with the idea of loading it onto a flash disk and so having
three different operating systems--XP, Ubuntu which is a full fledged
Linux but may not work perfectly with the machine's hardware, and Linpus
Lite, which is a toy Linux, but set up for this machine (or at least the
flash disk variant of it).

--
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Author of
_Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World_,
Cambridge University Press.
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