{"id":409,"date":"2009-03-20T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:40:19","slug":"ooo-its-so-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Ooo! It’s So Cute!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"teeny
\nI thought I thaw a laptop. I did! I did! I did thee a laptop!
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\nI went to CostCo the other day, and not because I was doing “research” and wanted to deduct my gas mileage for the trip. While I was there, I stumbled upon a tiny, minute, little, itsy-bitsy, midget laptop. I mean, the thing is doinky<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Despite its diminutive stature, I found myself compelled by the thing. I was mesmerized. It was just so cute! And cheap! About $300, or $299 or something.<\/p>\n

The laptop came packed with 1GB of RAM and has a 60GB hard drive. It runs Windows XP. The graphics are so-so, but I don’t think anyone would get a 2.5 pound laptop for playing Crysis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the baby laptop lost its appeal for me when I went to test out the keyboard: too small<\/em>! It wasn’t as bad as typing on a cell phone, but it was close. There was no way I was going to touch-type on the elfin HP laptop.<\/p>\n

Still, temptation had a hold of me. I was thinking, “Darn!” (Though I didn’t actually say “Darn!” but it’s older brother expletive.) “Darn! That thing is just cheap! I mean, I could reformat it with Ubuntu Linux and have a swell little NIX box that I could play with and be real nerdy!”<\/p>\n

So I stood around the tempting toy laptop for a few more minutes. I looked at the price. I admired the miniscule laptop. I looked back at the price. Then I tried once again to type on the thing, maybe hoping that my first impression was wrong.<\/p>\n

In my very first laptop book, published nearly 20 years ago, I wrote that laptops will decrease in size as long as technology keeps making things smaller. The only limitation is the size of the screen, which must be visible, and the size of the keyboard, which you have to type on. For me, that HP Mini 1000 Netbook computer is just too small to type on.<\/p>\n

I moved on and didn’t buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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