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7 months ago

in 6 reasons Michael Arrington’s critique of netbooks is wrong on Liliputing
Okay so I admit I first read this post on my iPod Touch, but that was only because I could not get to my netbook. Clearly the man does not travel much or far (which seems ridiculous on the face of it) or has unlimited funds (to afford the conventional mini-laptops that cost 5 times what a netbook costs) or gets his laptops free from otherwise disinterested PC makers. Otherwise he would get it. The netbook is the first affordable, portable, powerful enough, alternative for "the rest of us" and 8.9 and 10 in. models are making a lot of road warriors and street pounders very happy. I suspect a lot of us are using our netbooks IN PREFERENCE to our conventional laptops because we simply like the elegance of the idea. It is a machine that fits our self image as connected computers (meaning those who operate the machines, not the machines themselves...must be another word but I can't think of it). Of course they are not as powerful as a conventional laptop, but unless you are editing video, or constructing 3D models, or computing the square root of infinity, they are certainly powerful for most of us. And a 8.9 inch or larger screen, if of high enough quality, is perfectly workable. I edit photos on mine all the time...and find that with Chrome I most web pages display just fine thank you. My laptop only does "business" these days. My life is on my netbook.

7 months ago

in Intel: Netbooks aren’t really laptop replacements on Liliputing
Oh well. Intel didn't understand what users wanted when they started the whole netbook thing, and it is pretty clear they still do not get it. All thanks to them, by the way, for their lack of insight, which has enabled the netbook revolution. Except for work related projects, which I knock out on my corporate issued laptop, my Aspire One has completely replaced my conventional laptop. It is the machine I have always dreamed of owning. Affordable. Capable. Portable. Perfect. I am not even interested in a 10 inch model.
For more on this check out my blog entry at Cloudy Days and Netbook Nights. Netbooks: too good for their own good?
http://cdnn.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/netbooks-t...
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Harry Not surprising since Intel did not start the netbook thing. It was started by OLPC (in theory) and by Asus (in practice). Now OLPC has the developing world as its target, and Intel originally got in the game reacting to the OLPC design with the classmate (also theoretical at the time).

So it was Asus that really gave us the real practical OLPC. And the Atom, Intel's contribution, was hastily tailored to fit the Asus concept (although it was on the pipeline at the time). So credit should really go to Asus, not Intel. And, apparently, Intel is only now starting to "get it"!

7 months ago

in Knowledge@Wharton on the Net Impact of Netbooks on NetbookTech
I have my own take on this on my Cloudy Days and Netbook Nights blog.
http://cdnn.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/netbooks-t...

8 months ago

in Instructions for updating the Acer Aspire One BIOS on NetbookTech
Thanks for this very clear guide. It made it easy.
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