From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 18:34:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFEF106566B for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275DA8FC27 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11531 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2009 18:34:45 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Sep 2009 18:34:45 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B8EF350868; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Michael David Crawford References: <20090909210833.GA23467@thought.org> <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090910165129.GA20641@kokopelli.hydra> <4AA93D6A.2050704@prgmr.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AA93D6A.2050704@prgmr.com> (Michael David Crawford's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:54:50 -0700") Message-ID: <44ab12mywr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Mailing List List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:34:46 -0000 Michael David Crawford 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/