I'd really prefer it to be here to see if we can get some more folks from the early Mac years on board.
The convoluted history of mouse/trackball/trackpad and especially featureitis in more recent rodents is interesting. The old argument about two mouse buttons vs. three, the Mac's opting for a single button and how users on other platforms back in the day felt about moving to the Mac would be the kind of thing I'd like to see discussed here in peripherals.
Touche re the . . . I was cranky.
Seeing that it was impossible to reinstall from the recovery media provided by HP over several attempts made while I was on the phone with tech support, I'll happily lay the blame on the install image, or even myself. I was happy because I bought HP_Mini just to get back online and happier yet that it was chosen as THE NetBook for taking into the field with a digital photo kit. The fact that my ISP consisted of three free-WiFi coffee shops could have been reason enough for XPh3 to die so gruesomely. I forgot that I had installed Norton Anti-Virus from a CD on the DVD burner I got with it at OfficeDepot before doing ANYTHING online.
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/netting-more-memory-for-netbooks/?_r=0
http://apcmag.com/microsoft_hobbles_xp_mininotes_with_1gb_ram_limit.htm
This is interesting:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Microsoft-Netbooks-Storage,6321.html
It looks to me like the general public demanded Windows on a lean, mean (average performance ) platform designed for a leaner, meaner (vicious in its conservation of resources) OS, so I'm not at all surprised that many of those folks were unhappy within the resource limitations Microsoft imposed upon what came to be a 90% market segment penetration. It looks like Microsoft shot the entire market segment in the other foot, the first having been hobbled by form factor/price point compromises consciously made to create the Portable Net Appliance/NetBook.
http://techland.time.com/2012/12/31/the-netbook-isnt-dead-its-just-resting/
HP-Mini was one of the few NetBooks still available with a Linux install four years ago. With its 10.1" LCD/2GB/16GB SSD it's still running strong and makes the trip to work with me every day . . . along with a mouse pad, mouse and a backup mouse! ;D
I think that horse is way dead now! :beige:
So, how about those Met . . . peripherals?
The convoluted history of mouse/trackball/trackpad and especially featureitis in more recent rodents is interesting. The old argument about two mouse buttons vs. three, the Mac's opting for a single button and how users on other platforms back in the day felt about moving to the Mac would be the kind of thing I'd like to see discussed here in peripherals.
Touche re the . . . I was cranky.
Seeing that it was impossible to reinstall from the recovery media provided by HP over several attempts made while I was on the phone with tech support, I'll happily lay the blame on the install image, or even myself. I was happy because I bought HP_Mini just to get back online and happier yet that it was chosen as THE NetBook for taking into the field with a digital photo kit. The fact that my ISP consisted of three free-WiFi coffee shops could have been reason enough for XPh3 to die so gruesomely. I forgot that I had installed Norton Anti-Virus from a CD on the DVD burner I got with it at OfficeDepot before doing ANYTHING online.
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/netting-more-memory-for-netbooks/?_r=0
http://apcmag.com/microsoft_hobbles_xp_mininotes_with_1gb_ram_limit.htm
This is interesting:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Microsoft-Netbooks-Storage,6321.html
It looks to me like the general public demanded Windows on a lean, mean (average performance
) platform designed for a leaner, meaner (vicious in its conservation of resources) OS, so I'm not at all surprised that many of those folks were unhappy within the resource limitations Microsoft imposed upon what came to be a 90% market segment penetration. It looks like Microsoft shot the entire market segment in the other foot, the first having been hobbled by form factor/price point compromises consciously made to create the Portable Net Appliance/NetBook.http://techland.time.com/2012/12/31/the-netbook-isnt-dead-its-just-resting/
HP-Mini was one of the few NetBooks still available with a Linux install four years ago. With its 10.1" LCD/2GB/16GB SSD it's still running strong and makes the trip to work with me every day . . . along with a mouse pad, mouse and a backup mouse! ;D
I think that horse is way dead now! :beige:
So, how about those Met . . . peripherals?