{"id":1186,"date":"2008-06-27T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2008-06-27T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:56:16","slug":"i-want-an-eee-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/27\/i-want-an-eee-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"I WANT an Eee PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get one thing straight: I am not a laptop person. I like my full-sized keyboard, mouse, and screen, thank-you-very-much, and for me, there’s just very little incentive to go with a laptop. I much prefer to be able to swap out pretty much anything (new hard drive, new video card, etc.) rather than be stuck with what the manufacturer gave me.<\/p>\n

However, with that said – I still want an Eee PC<\/a>. If you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard of this before, click the link to see one. Basically, the Eee PC is a “sub-notebook,” or “ultraportable” – or maybe even a whole new category of small laptops. Instead of trying to be as powerful as a desktop computer (but portable), it instead tries to be as small, lightweight, and energy-efficient as possible.<\/p>\n

It uses a low-power CPU (think: 900 MHz Pentium-M) and instead of having a hard drive (with moving parts, which suck power) it has a solid-state hard drive – basically, a large capacity USB thumb drive. So no moving parts. It’s a bit like having a RAM-drive<\/a> (for those of you not old enough to remember what that is, go look in Wikipedia) for your OS.<\/p>\n

Of course, solid-state memory is still expensive, so it does not have much capacity, but solid-state memory is very fast, so it boots up quickly. And it runs a special version of Linux, so it doesn’t require much space anyway.<\/p>\n

Having said all that, you might ask, why I would want such a thing? And what could you reasonably do with so little storage space?<\/p>\n

The trick is to not think of it as a replacement for your desktop PC. I would never get rid of my desktop, even if I did get the Eee PC – instead, the Eee PC would supplement <\/em>my regular desktop PC.<\/p>\n

The Eee PC is basically an ultra-light interface to the web – and with all the stuff you can do on the web these days (WordPress, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) why would you need any apps on your computer other than a browser? So in that sense, the Eee PC would be perfect for me as a mobile web platform. I could look up stuff in Wikipedia while watching specials on the Discovery, History, or Science channels (as I often do), I could write blog posts (such as this one) while sitting on the couch or on the porch, I could stream music from my desktop PC – the possibilities are endless. And since it’s so small and lightweight, I could take it just about anywhere. (And since it’s Linux, it’s capable of doing quite a bit once you get there!)<\/p>\n

And did I mention it’s also quite cheap (as in, “inexpensive”)?<\/p>\n

All in all, the Eee PC would make a great extension to my “digital life,” if you will… and that’s<\/em> why I want one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s get one thing straight: I am not a laptop person. I like my full-sized keyboard, mouse, and screen, thank-you-very-much, and for me, there’s just very little incentive to go with a laptop. 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