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geneven: The "can't write a novel" argument is based on the alleged impossibility of touch-typing on a small keyboard, and the assumption that touch-typing is essential to novel-writing, not (AFAIK) on performance issues. I don't really consider either of these valid, but I can't touch-type or write a novel (with or without a netbook), so how would I know....
Ensuring that your computer is inside the house, and is cooled by circulating room air through it, rather than, say, ducted to a wall, is sufficient to heat your house with it. Using a heat engine to recover some of it as useful work is a little harder.
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2009-06-11
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One the same note I have a M1330 Dell laptop and the majority of the time, email, web-browsing e.t.c occur on my iMac and I'm a Linux lover.
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2009-06-11
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2009-06-11
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Bah, the article completely disregards the way the pies at Jester Burger have shrunk over time in order to maintain their price point. They're now the size of Fig Newtons and completely uninteresting because of it.
I won't mention that though, because people will take it as a metaphor for something else, and we already have enough threads about something else.
Instead, I'll just note that the pies at Jester Burger are no longer served at a temperature approximately equal to that of the surface of the sun. I'm not sure what that has to do with mobiles, netbooks, or notebooks, but I think that it indicates a disappointing trend in modern society.
And upon further reflection, maybe I will like those Intel-powered phones that will be available in a few years.
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2009-06-12
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2009-06-12
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2009-06-12
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2009-06-13
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I suspect that what we consider to be a netbook today will be just another category of laptop computer tomorrow
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