Will the PC survive?
I was reading bleedingedge again and they have corroborated my feeling that as everything else is getting smaller, technologically speaking, the PC would also.
I saw the queues in Australia for people wanting the buy the new iphone which combines a mobile with almost everything to do with a computer on line. The 3G mobile has existed for a while but what is added to this gizmo is that it combines an mp3 player as well as TV. However, here is a review of the new Apple Iphone
Still not the answer yet.
The laptop was another way of drawing people away from the desktop computer, most of which were made by Apple. It sounds nice, but I never bought one. I don’t need to have one as I’m not that mobile these days. Also, it seemed to fail in one most important way. How to break your back while you are using it.
Nevertheless, its sales did overtake those of the desktop computer.
Last December the ASUS Eee PC 701 was launched. It has a 7 inch screen and cut down keyboard. It only cost $500 too. It operates on the Linux platform and uses a lot of the open source programs which are free and which do everything that Microsoft can do. It only had 4 GB of memory however, but much less memory is required to boot it up. It has 3 USB ports to which you can add flash drives or another HD drive.
Obviously most web sites didn’t fit on the screen so one has to scroll left and right and the keyboard might require a kid’s fingers.
It has a web camera and Skype built in. A very cheap and portable computer.
Now ASUS is about to launch another one called Eee PC 901. So what has changed? The screen is bigger, the web cam is now 1.3 megapixels, battery life is about 4 hours and it comes with bluetooth and Pre-N wireless. You can now choose between XP and Linux. Each costs $649 but the Linux version has more memory.
Most people will probably go for the XP version. If you have a spare XP program you should be able to install it yourself. You can also use nlite from nlieos.com. That allows you to strip out Outlet Express and IE.
You can download the drivers from tinyurl.com/56okdk too.
I think I’ll keep my desktop for a while until it dies, but this cheap computer does sound very appealing.
July 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I think I agree with you.. I’m going to keep my desktop any how.. I mean, I can change every hardware whenever I want too and that’s important to me.
By the way: I have tagged you in a meme, I hope you don’t mind and would like to participate!
July 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I have seen a link to me from you. Is that what you mean. Comment luvver users?
July 17th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I have both a desk top and a lap top. I use the lap top when I am on the road but I still prefer the desk top. However as laptops become more and more powerful and the prices keeps going down I may change my view.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
No Jenny, I mean this:
http://www.bioteck.net/2008/07/15/four-things/
March 10th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hey, do you know where I can get a cheap laptop that cost less than US$1500 with 2.5Gb Ram? Please recommend me
Also, nice article you have there. I didn’t know that until I read your blog.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 am
It really depends on your lifestyle….