Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

Hmmm ... sorry but :

Photoshop can run on a netbook.
Some netbooks have very good keyboard, enough to write a novel.
Some netbooks actually runs OSX perfectly, with all the effects.

I believe that for most people with light computer needs, a netbook is enough.

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

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.

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

s/Photoshop/Visual Studio and Eclipse/
s/can't/won't want/
s/OS X flyout effects/Vista/

I actually agreed with your last statement...?

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

Qviri ... sorry, i don't understand what you mean by
s/...
s/...
s/...

i'm not a native English speaker, and not a native geek speaker
;)

OSX runs with all the effects, at least on my Lenovo S10 (or there is some more effect on my macbook unibody ... that i never noticed).

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

It's not English; it's geek. It's a command to select old text and replace it with new.

s/old text/new text/

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

I see what you're doing there.

I have often thought that the environmentally conscious among us should be figuring out ways to heat our houses with the heat generated from desktop CPUs and GPUs, or at least figure out some way to capture that heat and use it, maybe make a small steam engine to power USB devices or something?

The fan on my high-end nVidia video card stopped spinning last year. In the absence of any active cooling technology, the fan then simply melted off of the card.

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

This makes no sense to me, it must be some kind of joke I don't get. I'm referring to the "you can't write a novel on it."

(a) people wrote novels for some time without computers, and you can't write a novel on a netbook? I guess you can write a novel on just about anything.

(b) Someone later says that you don't need fancy stuff like spellcheck. What netbook is it that doesn't have spellcheck?

I was an editor for many years, and I could have done all the stuff I normally did as an editor on my netbook.

I suppose everyone has amnesia; they don't remember the many years in which you paid extra for small computers, and yet people did buy them -- I had a Dell Latitude, for example (and still do, but I never use it now, because my Asus 1000h runs so much cooler and better). Then someone actually started selling small for cheap! Of course people bought them.

How many people have written novels on their N800s and N810s, by the way? I bet a lot more people have worked on their novels on netbooks. I don't recall one single person here in the messages ever mentioning working on their novel on a Nokia tablet. Isn't that odd... If I'm wrong, please point the message out to me!

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

I wrote long essays on my Commodore 64...

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

geeks write code, not novels ;)

Re: "Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck"
 

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.:p Using a heat engine to recover some of it as useful work is a little harder.

In general, all wasted energy from electrical equipment contributes to heating. This also means, in cold enough climates, there's greatly reduced benefit to more efficient lighting, power supplies, or anything else. But for those of us where it gets warm in the summer, inefficiency can be doubly bad -- we use extra power, and then use more power dumping the heat through the A/C. While the payoff period is probably in the decades, waste-heat power generation from desktop computers could actually make sense for us.