Mininote mac11/6/2022 ![]() ![]() I’ve been opening up scads of windows at once–WordPress, Meebo, Polldaddy, Twitter, Picnik, two instances of Gmail and more–and it does seem like it may get a little sluggish at times. I’m not sure if I’d want to throw Photoshop at it. Performance: The Mini-Note is, by design, a basic computer, with a basic Via CPU. So how has life been with the Mini-Note? A few notes: #Mininote mac pro#Here’s a T-Grid comparing it to the MacBook Pro configuration I own, which weighs twice as much and costs close to three times the Mini-Note’s price–probably the only time you’ll ever see these radically different computers head to head: As netbooks go, it’s not cheap (you can buy a basic Linux-based Asus eee PC for less than half its $829 price) but it’s well-equipped, with stuff like a decently -sized hard drive, 2GB of RAM, Bluetooth, a long-life battery, Gigabit Ethernet, and a large-for-a-netbook keyboard that resists spills (HP aims the Mini-Note at students). So for me, the Mini-Note doesn’t feel exotic so much as a return trip to the kind of notebook I used to tote. And when I started Technologizer, I decided I wanted more screen space and resolution, and bought the MacBook Pro. Then I replaced that with the even larger, heavier 13-inch MacBook. I used to be addicted to subnotebooks like the Fujitsu Lifebook B112 and Fujitsu P-1000, but in 2004 I had an epiphany and bought my first Mac in years–the 12-inch PowerBook, which was a bit larger and heavier. And it’s the largest, heaviest machine I’ve carried in years. The MacBook Pro I use most of the time is relatively thin and light given how powerful it is, but it’s no subnotebook. And the hardware side of things is turning out to have as big an impact on the experience as the software aspect. Operation Foxbook–my experiment of dumping my MacBook Pro and desktop apps for an HP Mini-Note netbook and Web-based apps within Firefox–continues apace. ![]()
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