Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Relative to Reid's comment on the newspaper's last days, I have now found that I no longer go to the front stoup in the morning, rather I log in to the Denver Post and download the pdf version of the Post. For the past year I had been getting both the hard copy and the pdf and discovered that the hard copy never made it out of its wrapper and went straight to the recycle bin. I delayed canceling since I had a soft spot for the paper boy (whom I never met) having been one myself. But reading the pdf version on my 27" iMac is a whole lot easier on the eyes than fading newsprint and since the pdf version is identical to the print version it looks the same and all that's missing is the printer's ink on the fingers. Sorta like missing the smell of fixer on my hands. The Post charges $29 a year for the privilege of downloading the 'paper' and I know that I am still contributing to working journalists. The times they are a changin'. Bill in Denver On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > Henning, > > You need a real computer, not a highly mobile device. I doubt if Apple will > ever make something like this in a "netbook" form factor. There aren't > enough space on the edge of the case for all these plugs. For something > designed to be thin and light, even if Apple makes MacBook Air II, it's not > going to too thin and it is not going to look nice with all these ugly > jacks > along all the edges. :) Tapered edges looks better but reduces available > vertical height for jacks. > > Regards, > Spencer > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:58, Henning Wulff wrote: > > > > I would like a couple of USB ports, but my preference would be a couple > of USB plus a firewire port. Ethernet would be really nice too, since I use > gigabit ethernet at a couple of places. A built in SD card slot would be > nice too. > > > > My data throughput has been rather higher, and my basic phone needs > modest, so I have a very simple phone that does nothing else. All in all, > the rates in Canada for phone and data are very high compared with almost > anywhere in the world. You can tell in part by the relatively low and > careful useage of phones with extended features compared with other > countries. > > > > An iphone might be nice, but I haven't been able to convince myself yet > that I'd make sufficient use of it. > > > > > > I was really looking for a nice small netbook from Apple, and this > obviously isn't it. Maybe I'll get my head around its useability in a > while, > but most of what is offered is not something I've felt a lack of. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >