Easy to slide it in a bag or suitcase and enfold it on a train/airplane/car and do some text editing, programming or checking mails and sites. There is not much you can do with it, mostly its all online, but that is for many just enough.
Taking a full fledged laptop with you can be a troublesome, and its not all about how fast your OS is booted up but more the wait. And that for just loading quickly a website to check a appointment, see it as a bigger agenda/pda (without touch screen in this case).

A list of (soon) available cheap 7″/8″/9″ laptops in the Netherlands (retail).

• ASUS EEE PC 4G

1. RAM: 512 MB
2. Storage: 4 Gig
3. Screen: 7 inch

• ASUS EEE PC 900 ¹

1. RAM: 1024 MB
2. Storage: 20 Gig
3. Screen: 8,9 inch

• ACER Aspire One ²

1. RAM: 1024 MB
2. Storage: 80 Gig
3. Screen: 8,9 inch

Both found on Dixons.nl and Dynabyte.nl

With that tagline Electronic Arts introduces the follow up of Renegade that hopefully WILL succeed and give us what we’re longing for: A first person shooter in a Tiberium Wars enviroment.
A few screen shots and videos have been handed out.

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Current subscriptions has been released from the official mailinglist:

A new version of Opera just departed from her save docks:

Small summary:

Changelog:

• Security status should be now always correctly set when navigating from HTTP to HTTPS.
• Fixed an issue related to OCSP and CRLs that would lower security level - Yngve has a detailed article. You’ll have to manually check for updates to activate this fix.
• Fixed an issue in the content blocker that might cause no page to be loaded anymore. Homer: Doh!
• Fixed a crash on Yahoo! Mail (now really!).
• Fixed a crash with userjs.
• Fixed a crash related to Dragonfly.
• Fixed a crash on Print Preview.
• Fixed an issue that caused unwanted line breaks in rich text editors.
• Fixed loading of stylesheets when navigating in history.

UNIX specific:

• Fixed an issue that would prevent pages from closing on Qt4 builds.
• Fixed saving of changes to plugin configuration.

Although Firefox is my main battleship I still have Opera lingering around somewhere on the horizon silently following his superior. Though her interface is much cooler looking, Firefox is very compatible with a lot of sites. Opera simply sinks on some very popular sites (web 2.0ish sites)

It makes ticking sound like you scroll up and down with the touch pad and eventually it shut down.
The screen is black now and I cannot start it, when I press power button you hear a mechanical/spring wire like noise. I opened it but no faults in there as far I can see. I looked at various fora but no luck so far.
I can attach it with USB to my computer and browse through the files.
Things I did so far:

• Format the drive
• Tried to make it live with DFU tools - further attempts will be made later on
• Soft reset
• Hard reset

I have the idea that the screen maybe is disconnected but if so then atleast you would be able to listen music in some blind way, neither thats the case.
So far I am browsing every website about the player to find a solution and maybe later on going to a after sales service point, if any in the Netherlands.

I’m very disappointed and really miss my music player

Story continues…

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Below on the left my very own Laptop and on the right the most recent Macbook pro. The HP laptop was bought in November 2007, the Macbook is of course since this year widely available and not in my possession. The price for the HP is from November and now around 800 euro’s.

Hardware-wise they’re around the same specs and on a few spots the other has more then the other.
The laptop is a 17 inch and the mac is a 15 inch but on the same resolutions.

When I offer my laptop for sale I think I will get around 400-500 euro’s (max) back, unless I really can persuade a witty with a higher offer. I don’t know why, the laptop has been treated good, looks flashing and all works flawless even though it comes with Home Premium Vista. It doesn’t look like new but neither damaged or mistreated. On the other hand if that laptop was a Macbook Pro I can ask around 1200 euro’s for it, a nice head start for a next generation lapdog.

The Macbook is more expensive but when it comes with reselling you get more value out of it
So what would be the next logical step, wise to jump over to mac hardware when it comes to resell possibilities?
Any thoughts?

• Are normal windows laptops more likely to be sold?
• Harder to resell mac laptops because less audience?
• Fair to keep the prices up for mac models that are older then a year?

Secondhand HP laptops | Secondhand Macbook Pro

Just signed up to participate a beta, once again. I remember I had something in my mail about it but for some reason I can not retrieve it. Don’t think I will have much luck to enter. My own fault because I wasn’t thinking that something else then WoW could exist (regarding big MMO games).
*pats bald head*.