{"id":65,"date":"2008-12-23T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T01:36:14","slug":"ultimate-netbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"ultimate netbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today’s laptops remind me of those “bass players” you see with 5, 6 and 7-string basses<\/a>… Give me a fucking break. If you’re secretly harboring a guitar fetish, learn to play guitar and STFU.<\/p>\n

Today, “Netbooks” are all the rage. I’d actually call them “laptops,” since that’s what they seem to be — laptops that know their place. Small, thin, light, powerful enough, <\/em>wifi… All you need, really, in a laptop.\u00a0 So when the Asus eee<\/a> pc came out, I indulged. Nutshell: Fun to look at, maybe play with, but useless for touch typing in any serious way.<\/p>\n

\"\"Last week I bought a ThinkPad X41<\/a>. It’s awesome<\/strong><\/em> (I happen to love trackpoint navigation<\/a>, and IBM’s idea of how a keyboard should feel). It’s very thin, very light, with an old-school 1024×768, 12″ LCD… Which I like, ’cause I think the whole “cinema screen” craze is misguided as hell. I don’t use my laptop to watch movies; I use it to write. On vertical, letter-sized pages<\/em>. WTF. Anyway, netbook schmetbook; it’s a smart laptop that acts like one.<\/p>\n

Downside: Can’t run OSX (unless you’re seriously committed<\/a>)… But I’ve found that with RocketDock<\/a>, “Cleartype<\/a>” (is that really the best you could do, M$??) and a nice, minimalist theme<\/a> installed (and taskbar hidden), I have a superb “netbook” that is also a killer writing machine. Might go for the OSX crack one of these days, we’ll see. In the meantime, I have a wafer-thin happy lappy that weighs less than 3 pounds, has xlnt built-in wifi and is solid as a rock (1.5Ghz CPU\/1.5GB RAM\/40GBHD).<\/p>\n

Total cost? $250<\/strong><\/em>. That’s right. I scored extra discount points with the one I bought, as it had wonky keys, so the owner knew he had to go down… $200 out the door, found a new keyboard on eBay for $40+shipping. It even has a fingerprint reader (!?)… So there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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