So since I am broke I am going to give a Linux netbook a try. As a college student who walks/bikes to school a light laptop with a long battery life will be helpful.
I also plan on doing some traveling. Windows makes you buy extra software to use different languages. While Apple offers a good selection of languages (you can write in Irish gaelic!) Macbooks are big and expensive. Plus, Mac's have overpriced software and hardware. Windows has crappy software that can get really expensive in order to get good features.
So after doing some research I am going to go with an Asus EEE PC 1000 that comes with Asus crap Linux (Ubuntu or real Linux will be installed), 40 GB solid state hard drive, 1 GB of RAM and a 6 cell battery. I hope the battery life is somewhere close to what they say (8 hrs) because I am on campus all day.
Anyway, I will get on in the next two weeks or so. Expect a review by the end of January.
If Linux disappoints me I might hack it and put Leopard on it as shown here.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Mac Netbook?
There has been lots of speculation on whether or not Apple will join the netbook market. This would be wise for several reasons:
The success of the App store could be applied to netbooks
MobleMe takes care of store issues for small hard drives
Apple needs to appeal more to low budget consumers especially in this current economic climate
This may cannibalize the Macbook's dominance in the education market but this may be necessary as the economy shrinks and credit is harder to obtain.
Additionally, any technical majors would have to use a Macbook Pro or Macbook anyway since netbooks are not powerful enough to run advance software especially with photos, music, or movies.
Apple could also create a netbook with a design concept similar to the HP Pavilion tx2500z. This would be expensive and unlikely but a small netbook with features of a tablet would be innovative enough to suit Apple's mantra. Perhaps a $500 iNetbook and a $900 iTabletbook? These would most likely have 1.6 Ghz Atom processors, 1 GB of ram, and 32 GB of flash memory.
The success of the App store could be applied to netbooks
MobleMe takes care of store issues for small hard drives
Apple needs to appeal more to low budget consumers especially in this current economic climate
This may cannibalize the Macbook's dominance in the education market but this may be necessary as the economy shrinks and credit is harder to obtain.
Additionally, any technical majors would have to use a Macbook Pro or Macbook anyway since netbooks are not powerful enough to run advance software especially with photos, music, or movies.
Apple could also create a netbook with a design concept similar to the HP Pavilion tx2500z. This would be expensive and unlikely but a small netbook with features of a tablet would be innovative enough to suit Apple's mantra. Perhaps a $500 iNetbook and a $900 iTabletbook? These would most likely have 1.6 Ghz Atom processors, 1 GB of ram, and 32 GB of flash memory.
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