Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:44 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook Message-ID: <44ab12mywr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4AA93D6A.2050704@prgmr.com> (Michael David Crawford's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:54:50 -0700") References: <20090909210833.GA23467@thought.org> <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090910165129.GA20641@kokopelli.hydra> <4AA93D6A.2050704@prgmr.com>
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Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> writes: > Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or > employees of such manufacturers: > > What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size > screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far been unable to > find what I desire. > > What I mean by that is that I want a notebook with a low-power, > inexpensive processor and modest memory. That will work fine if one > runs an operating system such as FreeBSD. > > But I want at least a fourteen inch screen, preferably fifteen inch. You're not likely to see anything like that until something new happens in display technology. The screen, small as it is, is already most of the parts cost of those netbook units, so putting a big screen on one would make it as expensive as a low-end "real" notebook. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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