It's been three years since I purchased my last laptop, and there was a President's Day sale going on at Lenovo[1] that I was able to access by virtue of my affiliation with Red Hat, and my SBH reminded me of the fact several times with accompanying hints that I'd been wanting a new laptop (I don't recall that, but never mind), so I went online and ordered one. 2.3GHz, 3MiB cache, 500GiB disk, 4GiB RAM, 15.6" screen, 1920×1080 resolution.
Also within the last few days I contacted my DSL provider to see if there was a better rate plan available. There was (is), in fact — 4x the download speed and 5 more static IPAs for essentially the same price. Signed up for that, you betcha. Hopefully it'll make the Vonage VoIP quality better.
A couple of weeks ago, longtime friend and co-author Rich Bowen let me know he was going to be in the Triangle area, so we made arrangements to meet & eat at the ∞brasa Brasilian Steakhouse[2] in Brier Creek. After getting totally stuffed with meat, we wandered over to the nearby Barnes & Noble bookstore to sit ans schmooze for a while. (Brasa had some really loud live music going on.) While we were there, I used my iTouch to connect to the free attwifi network the bookstore offered — and have regretted it ever since. My iTouch has been horribly, horribly slow ever since — slow like falling back to sleep before recognising that I had, in fact, done the 'slide to unlock' gesture. No joy in finding out why online, nor from turning it all the way off and back on, so I think it's time to try the resent-from-iTunes path.
[1] I know, I know — I swore I wasn't going to order from Lenovo any more after the they-won't-rebate-Windows débaclè. But the ThinkPads are still my favourite laptop hardware: sturdy, reliable, and well-supported on Linux. So sue me.
[2] That's what their logo looks like: ∞brasa. Srsly.
No, it will not have the same capabilities of a ltapop from the UI, to the keyboard. It will be about as fast as an iTouch would be on your network. It isn't a ltapop, it's supposed to supplement your primary computer.It you want something that organizes info for you (e-mail, contacts, calendar) and you need to browse the web an iPad is for you. If you even need to ask what it lacks, most likely it will not do what you want. It is just a netbook, produced by Apple, but with less features and no keyboard.
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