Its lighter and almost smaller than most paperback books. I thought the keyboard might give me trouble at first but I'm typing this with relative ease. The touch pad is fairly generous providing you don't have mars bar fingers and the wifi and bluetooth seem flawless (I'm actually connected to the internet at the moment using my phone as a bluetooth modem).
Now for the question of what I'm actually going to do with it. I'll admit I'm no closer to my Parisian Cafe ideals than the last time I mentioned my netbook but i still feel that the minimalistic, Linux-based device is the future of computing.
5 years ago computers were like cars. It was about power, capability and tech demos which left us speechless. 0-60 was all that mattered. Then we started to see true innovation. Computing wasnt about supercharged, supercooled behemoths. It was about efficiency and design. People began to realise what they ACTUALLY used their computers for not what they COULD use it for. Common sense kicked in and the sensible response to "My car can touch 200mph if i really pushed it" became "So what? planning a race are we"
Although having said that... I still want a sports car.
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Stu's just bought me a netbook to be delivered on Friday!! It does run Windows, but I think we may make it dual boot to Linux.
Linux is definitely the way forward for netbooks. Everything ive read and seen leads me to believe that windows is just too bulky and unnecessary for netbooks. It needs to be specialised.
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