my Dell inspiron m500 have served me well. Bought it for its size when netbook is not even a word yet. Arrived clean white and silver on jan 05. Have been my trusted workhorse. It traveled to LA n BKK before. Upgraded to a larger HDD last year hoping to last another 2 yrs. Now with a bad RAM, its going to cost $150+/Gb to replace, which just does not make any sense.
Had a tough time deciding a opensolaris-cum-linux regular notebook or a Macbook. Finally settled on macbook pro 13" for $1.9lk. Cost less than my then dell m500. Compared with other windows laptop of the same price range. Differentiating factor - design, engineering, 1066Mhz front side bus, backlit keyboard, snow leopard (64bit, OpenCL, UI). I have seen Peter Karlsson's macbook running opensolaris. Will set aside sometime to work on this.
At the meantime, my dell will stays with me to be "netbook'd". Need to set aside some time to try out moblin, ubuntu netbook remix and various lightweight opensolaris, MilaX, StormOS or even LXDE on opensolaris. This should be fun...
Friday, September 11, 2009
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err, it wasn't me who brought the lappy to LA and BKK...
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