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What’s The Perfect Computer For Le Web?

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Before flying over to Las Vegas for Blogworld, I was looking at my carry-on bag and trying to decide if bringing my full laptop was a good idea. Would I really use it while I was travelling? While I was at the conference? In the downtime in the evenings and mornings? In the end I did take it, partly as a massive file storage for TV episodes and films to watch (via the PSP) and so I’d have a full editing suite if I decided to do any recording. How many media files did I transfer? Three. How much editing

Of Course Netbook Sales Are On The Rise

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Is it any wonder that sales of netbooks are on the rise? The Guardian posted this at the start of the week and I’ve had the tab open in Firefox since then to write about this. The features race on the regular desktop market has been over for a while. The increases in CPU speed and memory don;t affect the average consumer any more. Storage is one area that is growing given the requirements of digital media, but really we should be teaching people to buy a new hard drive rather than a whole new desktop. There will always be

Why Windows 7 Will Kill The Netbook Market

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It’s fascinating watching people come to terms with the craze for netbooks. As the costs of the units drop to commodity levels, the space for profit is being squeezed both by the retail price target of £200, and the generic components being used in the machines. Even with a 20% profit on all components, that means there’s only £40 to be shared round all partners on a typical netbook. So anyone getting involved in the space is going to have to hope for either a massive volume of sales, or the customers happy to put up with an increase in

The Asus EEE and Psion’s Influence

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Two little things around my Asus EEE PC show why it’s obvious that I really like this machine. The first is the solitary sticker on the case of the machine – the Moo Stickers along the battery spine don’t count. It’s the metallic badge of the Psion Series 3mx, probably the finest British PDA ever made, that sits proudly on the lid. The second is the case that I carry the EE around in. It’s an old, battered, mix of hard ABS plastic covered in felt and canvas, and held my Psion Netbook for many a year, starting in early

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Asus EEE PC

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My recent trip to Dublin (to speak at Mobile Monday Dublin) was a little watershed moment. I pretty much committed to the Asus EEE 901 completely. Unlike previous overnight trips (eg the Birmingham Social Coffee events), I had a fair amount of work that I was still going to be doing while away, including writing up the MoMoDub talk and accompanying PowerPoint presentation. The EEE was going to be the only workhorse with me. Needless to say, it passed with flying colours. In terms of Operating Systems, as the EEE left for these trips it was still able to dual

How To Get Ubuntu Netbook Remix on your Asus EEE PC

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More fiddling on the Asus EEE 901, and more confirmation on why Linux really isn’t yet ready for the mainstream. You may recall that the EEE comes with either Windows XP (which needs little introduction) or a custom build of Xandros which I jokingly call “My First Fisher Price Computer.” The thing is, that Xandros, even in Easy Mode, is pretty slick, and does most of what I need a machine to do (which nowadays means a decent Web Browser, word processor and possibly an IMAP email client). So why go fiddling with new operating system installation? To be honest