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Re: Intel: Netbooks aren’t really laptop replacements

Steve — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:02:17 -0000

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...

Re: 6 reasons Michael Arrington’s critique of netbooks is wrong

Steve — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:32:21 -0000

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.

Re: Instructions for updating the Acer Aspire One BIOS

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:25:59 -0000

Thanks for this very clear guide. It made it easy.

Re: Knowledge@Wharton on the Net Impact of Netbooks

Steve — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:17:28 -0000

I have my own take on this on my Cloudy Days and Netbook Nights blog.
http://cdnn.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/netbooks-t...

Re: Thinking Differently About Thinking Differently

Steve — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:09:05 -0000

When people think, they all think differently. The problem is that people do not think. And, unbelievably, Christians are too often among those who do not think. The spirit of God in each of us, as expressed in our natures in Christ, is nothing if not original, nothing if not unique, certainly the very definition of different. Otherwise, what is the point? Yet original thought is especially dangerous in the Christian community. I often call myself an "unconventional" Christian, just to warm folks that I might not conform to their expectations.

What needs to be rethought? Everything. We need to approach every moment as the fresh creation it is...every relationship as the new creation it is...every responsibility as the new opportunity for creation it is. We are children of the living God, creating the body of Christ each moment, completing, as Paul says, what remains to be completed of the work of God in Christ. We are, by faith, the living word, Christ, through whom all that is is made, making the universe as we live out the breath that animates us. If we don't think, who will?