If you want to hear a discussion of these net books you can go to <http://atmaine.com>, then to the :AT Show" link, then download the archive for November 12th, last night as I write this. Steve and the other participants discuss the new System Access upgrade <yes, still unofficial> and the new net books. The System access discussion takes about an hour, and the rest of the show is taken up with net books and a couple of items which will be covered in more depth on the next show. The show takes place from 7-9 P.M. Eastern time on Wednesdays; and there is a lot of very informal, good discussion.
Hth Pam -----Original Message----- From: Darren Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:26 AM To: 'K. Matthew'; [email protected] Subject: RE: the new micro laptops have you tried using one? -----Original Message----- From: K. Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 November 2008 16:16 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: the new micro laptops Actually, they are called Net books. But any how. They are usable. Just the keyboard setup on them are different then a normal laptop. Some of them like the Dell Net book do not have all the F Row keys. And the shift key on the right is moved and so forth. They are good for note taking and checking email and so forth. But, far as anything else goes, it will have a hard time doing. I know the Dell can be upgraded with two gigs of ram if you know what you doing on changing out the ram in it. The only down size about them is the fact they only come in several size hard drives. 8 or 16 gig's if I remember correctly. And windows XP alone on one takes nearly 2 gig's of that space. But, if you got the money, you can buy a Bluetooth keyboard, and a head set, and just drop the thing in a back pack and you got you a high end notetaker to go. Cheaper then the notetakers are these days and you can get one of those blue tooth Braille display and make it even more user friendly. Matt. From: Darren Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: the new micro laptops hi all, i hope you know what i mean by the micro laptops, they are the really small machines that you can get, they don't have a cd drive or anything like that, they are much smaller than the normal laptop but they run on windows xp pro i think. some of them do. i'm wondering if these are any good for we as i must admit i've got my eye on one of them. any thoughts? thanks. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
