Re: AKICIF (new PC)

In article <MPG.253fc6665307e8b2989d47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
netcat <netcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <hb35iq$s86$6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
netcat <netcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've made hw purchasing decisions that seemed quite justified at the
time, I thought, that turned out to be half-assed and insufficient
solutions too many times before and also lost all their resale value
before I could get rid of them.

Isn't that pretty much inevitable in the computer field?

Yes, eventually. But in these cases I never got much, or any, productive
use out of them before that happened.

Case in point, the Asus Eee. Bought last summer, fully convinced it was
_the_ mobile solution for me. Used about two days. Been in the bottom
drawer ever since. Tried to sell it off, no takers at even half price,
the same year, even much less likely to get rid of it now.

My Asus eee ended up with my daughter at college, and she loves it--just
the thing for taking notes in class. A further advantage, as she
mentioned yesterday, is that she can't play World of Warcraft on it and
the screen is small enough to make web browsing inconvenient, so she can
get schoolwork done without yielding to distracting temptations.

I gave it to her because the keyboard is poorly designed--an up arrow
key next to the small right shift key. If I try to use the right shift
key while in a word processor, the odds are about even that I find
myself two or three lines above where I was. I touch type, she does fast
hunt and peck typing, so it doesn't bother her.

I later bought myself an Acer Aspire, a similar netbook with a much
better keyboard. It was intended for trips, and is very convenient, but
the convenience doesn't make up for the disadvantage of a different OS
than I'm used to (Windows instead of Mac) and not having my usual stuff
on it, so I end up using my Mac laptop instead.

--
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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