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Waterfall Buffet (2/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"This place isn't that great but the presentation is nice and it's very clean, probably because it's still new, having opened only months ago. There were a lot of people eating when I visited the…"
- John Pastor
Top This! Yogurt (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I went here after visiting Yog-Yog on Cirby Way, which was my first frozen yogurt place I visited in a while. Top This! is a smaller location, and when I went, was somewhat crowded. The young man at…"
- John Pastor
Yog-Yog Frozen Yogurt (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I'm a huge fan of Yog-Yog, although it was the first frozen yogurt place I visited since living in Sacramento so I had nothing to compare it to. As soon as I walked in, the nice lady at the front…"
- John Pastor
The netbook conversation. Discuss your favorite netbooks here. TONS of questions were coming in over on Twitter, do it here:
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I like the Asus 1000HE best for processor, video, price, keyboard combination. Sony Vaio? Pretty, but expensive and not as good performance.
- Robert Scoble
Is / should the MacBook Air be part of this discussion? Also, the Kindle 2.0 is approaching web functionality of a laptop (somewhat, at least).
- Jack Collins
I have a MSI WIND U100, It came with windows XP, installed Windows 7 on it and its peforms very nice! I love it.
- Fee501st
I have the Acer Aspire One, it's decent - but the 1000HE is where it's at.
- John Pastor
Haven't had a chance to play with the Asus 1000HE but so far I'm quite pleased with my MP Mini 1000 - great screen/kb, good bat life.
- timepilot
My subnotebook: Toshiba Satellite U400. I only wish the trackpad had a third mouse button. I would so much rather have a subnotebook than a netbook.
- Mitch
When it comes to netbooks I go for whatever is the cheapest and lightest. If I need something more I just bring my full scale lappy. The Asus EEE 701 kicks enough butt for my needs.
- MarkCarras
been using the aspire one. got a good deal on it. people in the press gallery marvel over it for some reason. considering it's pretty much a word processor and browser for me, it is what it is. can't really complain.
- Andrew Feinberg
i have the asus eeepc, dont use it that much these days though. We keep it in the living room and wifey uses to lookup stuff and recipes.
- sean percival
I've been using the HP Mini 1033. It's now my favorite "carry and go" computer. I really like the keyboard and overall performance is good. Least favorite things I like about it? The webcam is poor and I wish the trackpad buttons were designed to be more distinguishable from the trackpad itself. I haven't tried any of the other Netbooks for extended periods.
- Loren Heiny
Anybody got a bead on a 1000HE w/ Linux on on it or does Ubuntu EEPC work on it?
- wes monk
I have the HP Mini 1000 I like it, but never use it! Mainly because when traveling I take a lot of pictures, so I need the local storage to store and to manipulate the images. It's not feasible to upload every pic I take.
- Bryan Thatcher
I recently bought an Acer ASPIRE one to try to get a better sense of what all these netbooks are about. This is the first time I bought a windows machine since 2004. After 6 reboots and some clean up of the desktop, I must admit that for $350, you get a pretty decent machine. My 5 year old daughter likes it. The only real pain beside the initial clean up experience is the trackpad: I found it hard to move the mouse around and almost impossible to find the scroll zone.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I like the one that hasn't been created yet. The Mac NetBook.
- Rob Fahrni
i really just want a tablet, a nice light one. i heard some guy was working on one
- sean percival
Dell Mini 12. Very big but very, very light and almost fun to use.
- Sweyn Venderbush
from twhirl
Used the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind U100 and now playing with the Sony VAIO P (which is *NOT* a netbook, accdg to Sony). Eee PC reformatted and installed with Ubuntu and then sold it. MSI Wind U100 reformatted and installed with Mac OS X - now being used by the kids. Sony VAIO P running Vista. So far, the VAIO P blows all competitors in as far as aesthetics is concerned - higher screen resolution, better camera, smaller, lighter. Still evaluating it, though.
- Rom Feria
The lesson for me is that there is market opportunity for a 10 inch device and that on these types of machines, all you really need is a browser...What would be really interesting would be to have a touch screen and be able to use these like a tablet (ie keyboard being optional until you slide it out). There is going to be a lot of interesting innovation in this area in the next few years I think.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I've got an Eee PC 901 and everything works except WiFi -- that is, a very specifc ad-hoc connection with my Nokia smartphone: http://is.gd/jlvv
- Andrew Currie
See Gizmod0 for turning DellMini9 into Mac Netbook: http://tinyurl.com/cbyc4k (via TechMeme)
- Kathy E Gill
I have HP Mini 1010NR (Windows XP) which has SSD so I'm running Portable Firefox & Chrome from http://getdropbox.com which works very well! I upgraded to 2GB RAM for less than $30 (best $30 I've ever spent!)
- Thomas Ho
from twhirl
For the price you can get one for on Craigslist, you can't beat a Mac G4 PB 12" laptop. Love it, firewire, isight camera ready, tough, cool, full-size keyboard, DVD writer, custom cases.
- Jim Miller
I bought an LG X110 (black) for my wife. Underrated, maybe not the cheapest, but wonderful. I'm thinking of another one for me (or give her the pink version and keep the black). 10" screen and a very practical keyboard: 8.9" is still too small, screen and keyboard; 10" is perhaps already too big and «heavy», but it pays.
- Jorge Martins Rosa
I have a Samsung NC10. Battery life is incredible, and overall usability is great. Upgraded to 2GB RAM, and it absolutely flies.
- Chris Hunt
I have an Aspire One XP 160G HD 1 Gig RAM works great with my slingbox dual boot XP/Win7. Love traveling with it.
- Curt Kelly
Time pilot: I have an HP on loan and am buying the Asus, will review them. I like the HP too and HP has one with better graphics at about $700 price.
- Robert Scoble
I am absolutely in love with my Asus Eee PC 1000H/XP, and I take it everywhere now. I even lug it around the apartment, so I can remote into my desktop while watching TV or whatever. It's the perfect mobile "thin client", and even holds its own as a development machine for school needs (replacing an HP Pavilion which now seems like it weighs 1 ton =))
- Daniel Bruce
Typing this on the hp 2133 and i love it. better resolution than the rest of the netbooks: 1280x768, best keyboard. get the new one (2140) to enjoy an Atom processor. I've used the wind, asus machines, acer, etc... this is the one that can be full-time laptop.
- richard
We own an Advent 4213 since 3 months, 3G embedded and generally speaking is not missing anything against what *was* permitted to have by OEM licences limits.. Uhm, this pc concept/price is great but so hot that is embarrassing to talk about a competitor model spec of some weeks ago.. Acer, Asus and Samsung were a bit ugly or missing something.. Take care about monitor size and strength.. are not mere details. Sony Vaio P seems fantastic.. what about price and performances??
- Daniele Beta
iPhone..
- Andy Connell
I probably should have waited for the Asus 1000 HE to come out before making my purchase, but I'm doing some high-end audio recording on my Asus eee 1000 HD, and, for now, it's doing alright by me. Keyboard and trackpad were a pain to deal with at first, tho'.
- Helen Sventitsky
Would anyone here buy the "Crunchpad" that Techcrunch has been working on? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Mitch
I'm waiting for the dust to settle on what this convergence device becomes. I would definitely like to see more move back to solid state drives. Local storage is nice, but for as much as I would probably throw one of these things around, I don't want to worry about messing up a traditional hard drive. In addition, I would plan to sync and stream content from my home desktop/server, through VPN, - meaning less need for local storage.
- Tyler Brownfield
Here is a post my the founder of Zumodrive on Netbooks http://blog.zumodrive.com/a-netbo...
- Sunil Bhargava
@Daniel Bruce, I do the same thing: I use the HP Netbook to remote desktop into my desktop development machine while sitting on the couch or sitting outside.
- Loren Heiny
I put Windows 7 on my R2H. The wifi works better now than it did in XP and Vista--because it didn't work at all in XP (after updating to BIOS A08) and Vista (with any BIOS). If I buy a netbook with no digitizer, it will probably be because the netbook costs under $250 and makes a great hackintosh. I have to put Leopard on something, and I'm afraid I will have BSODs or the dead keyboard issue if I stick it on my MacBook.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Even though i am still a big fan of the Samsung NC10, hell there are so many new devices coming out now. Samsung NC20 with the VIA Nano CPU, or the new Eee PC 1000HE, or even the Eee PC T91. I did some videos while i am here in Taiwan http://www.youtube.com/user...
- Sascha Pallenberg
I'm getting an Asus 1000HE - great battery life, nice keyboard.
- Jim Connolly
I have the Asus N10. Got it after using Asus Eee PC HA, MSI WIND, LG X110, HP Mini 1000 and Acer Aspire One. IMO the N10 is the best you can get out there, with its stellar design, 6.5 hours battery, additional Splendid-powered OS which can boot up in 5 seconds, express card, amazing 10.2 inch glare screen and 95% of regular sized keyboard with low profile keys. Besides battery, The N10 is the ultimate netbook.
- Nir Ben Yona
I have an Aspire One, which I really dig, but am seriously getting a 6-cell battery for it as soon as prices or my disposable income allow. The 3-cell life is ridiculously short: < 2 hrs.
- Steve Lowe
I have an EeePC 901 (Atom processor, Win XP). I bought it in the fall, but I've almost never used it. Everytime I'm about to take with me, I find myself thinking 'I'd better take the Macbook.'
- Rubin Sfadj
Rubin - Saw this link where they turned a Dell mini into a OS X netbook. Maybe you could do the same with your Eee? http://i.gizmodo.com/5156903...
- Matt Martin
Currently using a Dell Mini 12 and an EEE 701. The Dell is a nice machine, lovely screen, and I find it very useful. But the EEE is the best thing ever, I found after I bought the Dell that the EEE's smallness was the killer feature for me.
- Matt Jones
Just as netbooks migrated from 7" to 8.9" now they have gone to 10". There's already a movement to 12" and at that point., we're well and truly back in laptop land but at 25% cheaper. Something I wrote about today. http://bit.ly/CNNmp
- Steve 'Chippy' Paine
Oh, oh! The LG netbook had to be returned: the touchpad died this afternoon, after 2.5 weeks of usage -- ironic, considering how much I praised it. Had to swap it for an identical one. Let's see how it behaves this time. Meanwhile, I've seen photos on the Vaio P. Beautiful, but where does one rest the palms while typing??? http://tinyurl.com/75tqyc
- Jorge Martins Rosa
I just ordered an ASUS 1000HE from Amazon. I should have it by tomorrow. First step, pave it and put Windows 7 on it.
- Jeff Sandquist
I'm going to be passing my Dell Mini 9 along. I just can't adapt to the keyboard. Almost pulled the trigger on a Mini 10 today, then it hit me that the Asus 1000HE has Bluetooth, isn't shacked by 1GB onboard RAM, and has ~50% more battery life for almost $200 less. Problem is that's really too close to my 5yr old perfectly serviceable Latitude X300 in form factor to justify, so I'm now giving the X300 the evil eye trying to get it to die on me so I can get a new toy.
- Ken Sheppardson
Just ordered a Mini 9. Something about a 1-day sale and running a fruity OS on it...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
New Digg Mobile site released - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Where's the official native iPhone app?!"
- John Pastor
Leo Laporte to stream for 24 straight hours! - http://digg.com/apple...
"Here's to 24 hours, Leo!"
- John Pastor
What Twitter would look like during a Zombie outbreak (PIC) - http://digg.com/comedy...
"Nice!"
- John Pastor
The ugliest aircraft you will ever see - http://digg.com/autos...
"Probably the most badass looking plane ever."
- John Pastor
Open Letter to Steve Jobs about the iPhone in Canada - http://digg.com/apple...
"It's not Apple's fault, they pushed for unlimited data."
- John Pastor
Open Letter to Steve Jobs about the iPhone in Canada - http://digg.com/apple...
"This isn't Apple's fault, I know Steve really pushed for unlimited data, and obviously Rogers didn't budge. It's Rogers' fault."
- John Pastor
What is your favorite word of all time?
Dan Barrett, Jason Toney, Sean McBride and 12 other people liked this
any form of caterwaul
- Jeff Quinton
dinner.
- Justin Whitaker
peace
- Susan Beebe
Ennui - But I don't care.
- Russellreno
from NoiseRiver
Holy moses Russell ... that's the word I was going to use and that's not a run of the mill word.
- AJ Kohn
shibboleth, #2 reciprocity
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
nap
- Jason Wehmhoener
ketch
- MikeAmundsen
others on my list: grok, serendipity, chartruse
- AJ Kohn
lockergnome
- Steve Rubel
copacetic
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
Serendipity
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
does a name count? because it would be throckmortimer. Otherwise, weasel.
- Phil G
AJ That is one word I dont hear spoken, or see used often. What doyou mean by "run of the mill".
- Russellreno
from NoiseRiver
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
@Marc Vermut - damn...I thought I was the only one who used / liked that word!
- JA Castillo
bludgeon
- George Lee
from twhirl
@Russellreno: edited my comment. It's NOT a run of the mill word. But I like the way it looks and juxtaposition to it's pronunciation. I used that in a creative writing class (for just this exercise) and the professor thought I was sassing her.
- AJ Kohn
"Absolutely" - if you say each syllable really slow it is an amazing word
- Chris Harris
I like pundit and propensity; this morning a guy used "bailiwick" on me; but not gubernatorial ... that word bites.
- Dan Covington
My favorite word – Context
- David Zeitman
myopic
- mike "glemak" dunn
love
- Susan Beebe
rickaroll
- Steve Mann
from twhirl
instantiation
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Onomatopoeia
- Fred Yankowski
Chris Harris: We had a german consultant who used it. We would ask him if he could ---- and he would say slowly - Absolutely.
- Russellreno
quixotic
- Jennifer Van Grove
from fftogo
@JA well, consider us the only two...and we might be separated by great distance, so why don't we each take a regional franchise on it? Are we copacetic?
- Marc Vermut
from twhirl
Music
- George The Writer
defenestration
- Alex Kremer
ambiguity
- Brandon
worship
- Chris Jackson
Archipelago I love that word since Junior year in high school
- Dave Peck
wicked
- Mack D. Male
succulent
- Jake Good
forty-two
- Jeremie Lariviere
pronk
- Tim Cleary
sysygy
- clarke thomas
raspberry
- chris demeyere
manifest
- Jarrod Morgenstern
luscious
- Chris Nuttall
Awesome!
- Richie Keith
eunoia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Kris Kelley
orgasmic -- runner ups include panda, eclectic, adamantine and arete
- RAPatton
interrobang
- Neil Estep
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (you knew someone would go there...)
- Brady
Shenanigans
- Hao Chen
Fuzzable.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Fantastic!
- Michael Forian
fudgesicle - just pops out all the time
- BGG
phantasmagoraphobia: "fear of the immensity of the spirit world"
- John T Unger
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Yakkle
Macabre (gotta love Edgar Allan Poe) ;) On the flipside it would be Om
- JoLynn Braley
alot - as in a lot.
- Danny Rudd
cupcake
- Valerie Querns
portmanteau
- Russ W
Antidisastablishmentarianism
- Oliver
plethora
- geekazine
slew
- John Pastor
FREE!
- MattKelly
defenestrate
- Dave Peterson
Exponential
- Melissa Goetsch
Spatula
- George
Protocol
- Noah Carter
schipperke
- Kevin Johnson
mongoose
- John Frenette
from twhirl
cromulent
- Ed Gutman
discombobulated
- Steve
betwixt
- Michael W. May
Kaput
- Andrew
Love
- Peter Dawson
lugubrious
- Lucretia Pruitt
frigorific
- Michael Greene
laborious
- Kyle DeFacis
sheeple
- Fred
ostensibly
- rob zand
rutabaga
- cherati
circumnavigate
- Sean McBride
moron (not a criticism, I just like the word)
- Dave Kinsella
flute-bag
- john conroy
Be. Also, bombastic.
- Jason Toney
blunderbuss
- Laurie Stoker
Onomatopoeia.
- cecily
We did this by groupthink on Facebook, results here, full of beautiful words: http://www.facebook.com/group... Here are the first ten, plenty more in there: 1 Discombobulate2 Conker3 Crevice4 Akimbo5 Spigot6 Tumescent7 Spool8 Stegophilist9 Tmesis10 Papoose
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
Bombastic
- Vince DeGeorge
rapture
- Dan Barrett
fuckwit or shitwit -- hard choice; probably the former. chowderhead or chucklehead -- probably the latter. Too many good words to roll around in one's mouth and mind. stentorian - I use that muchly lately.
- Sean McBride
schmuck
- maxim shevertalov
quim
- Dossy Shiobara
"floculate"
- Dean Barnett
Two favorites: sequoia, hello
- Great Scott!
Ostensibly, it is the first word of my comment (chose word before I saw rob's - really)
- Micah Wittman
allegiance
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
eclectic
- Scott
syllabication has a soft spot for me because I won a spelling bee in 3rd grade with it.
- Mark Krynsky
oxymoron
- David W
friendfeed
- Tyler Gillies
samadhi ;)
- john conroy
no
- sean808080
Sync your calendars with BusySync, win a free license! | MacSpark - http://www.macspark.net/2008...
At first glance, BusySync has just as cool of a logo as SpanningSync, so we’re doing well so far. Also, a quick glance at the price tag won’t make you cringe like SpanningSync will. For a lifetime license to BusySync, it’s a mere $25 dollars as oppo
- John Pastor
Sync your calendars with BusySync, win a free license! | MacSpark - http://www.macspark.net/2008...
At first glance, BusySync has just as cool of a logo as SpanningSync, so we’re doing well so far. Also, a quick glance at the price tag won’t make you cringe like SpanningSync will. For a lifetime license to BusySync, it’s a mere $25 dollars as oppo
- John Pastor
Bush To Filipino Prez: Fillipino's make great kitchen staff - http://digg.com/2008_us...
"And people digg this down for no reason because they don't know what that is. :)"
- John Pastor
The Website Is Down - http://digg.com/linux_u...
""it should be up right now" "they call it ONLINE! we gotta get this page online""
- John Pastor
Digg c. 1995 - http://digg.com/design...
"Somewhat old, yet still good."
- John Pastor
Kevin Rose on Live Radio show (The woody Show Live) - http://digg.com/people...
"Come on, Digg more!"
- John Pastor
new type of mac at WWDC? - http://digg.com/apple...
"Fake - this doesn't use Apple's standard Windows logo (the four grey squares)."
- John Pastor
New iPhone Images Leaked - http://digg.com/apple...
"If Apple legal doesn't order these to be taken down, they're fake."
- John Pastor
New iPhone Images Leaked - http://digg.com/apple...
"The real thing will probably be even better. =)"
- John Pastor
New iPhone Images Leaked - http://digg.com/apple...
"There are so many problems with these leaks. 1. XP isn't properly capitalized in the mockup - it's spelled Xp in the mockup. 2. The Product (RED) one is missing the sleep/wake button. 3. WiFi isn't correctly spelled, it's spelled wifi in the mockup. 4. The inconsistent use of Apple's flagship font - Myriad Pro. It's so fake."
- John Pastor
Future Photoshop UI changes - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack...
"We've been working hard to make the interfaces of the various apps more consistent."
- John Pastor
Future Photoshop UI changes - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack...
"We've been working hard to make the interfaces of the various apps more consistent."
- John Pastor
Britain's Got Talent: Michael Jackson Suprise - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Best thing I've seen on YouTube ever.
- John Pastor
Britain's Got Talent: Michael Jackson Suprise - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Best thing I've seen on YouTube ever.
- John Pastor
Why AT&T May Deep-Discount the iPhone - http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
With competitive pressures mounting, the phone company may cut the iPhone's price to boost demand—and cement its relationship with Apple
- John Pastor
Why AT&T May Deep-Discount the iPhone - http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
With competitive pressures mounting, the phone company may cut the iPhone's price to boost demand—and cement its relationship with Apple
- John Pastor
A Time Machine trip to the mid-'90s - http://www.macworld.com/article...
An interesting look at the scraped Copland OS from Apple.
- John Pastor
circular square - http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/08...
One of the coolest photos I've ever seen.
- John Pastor
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