Honey I shrunk the Mac

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re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

Belinda Parmar — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:56:46 GMT

Quite agree. My husband wants me to treat 'our' IT equipment the same way I treat my 6 month old baby- with care and fragility. For me, I just want to dump the thing in my handbag and go. The emotional attachment is with what I can do with it. I've ordered my new Asus but they are out of stock so I am still waiting. I will let you know if it lives up to the hype. Do you have one?

re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

Rory Sutherland — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:59:00 GMT

The point is that it is cheap enough not to worry about all that much. As a result you discover that, never mind the weight and size, a £200 laptop is simply more portable than a £1,000 laptop. For instance you can carry it around in a carrier bag, not in a padded case.

Reminds me of P J O'Rourke on cars:

"......Even more important than being drunk, however, is having the right car. You have to get a car that handles really well. This is extremely important, and there's a lot of debate on this subject – about what kind of car handles best. Some say a front-engined car; some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind. You can also park without looking, and can use the trunk as an ice chest. Another thing about a rented car is that it's an all-terrain vehicle. Mud, snow, water, woods – you can take a rented car anywhere. True, you can't always get it back – but that's not your problem, is it? "

re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

Alex Kennedy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:38:14 GMT

Good deal on the Asus through Orange...

www.orange.co.uk/pressoffice

re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

Nick Gillett — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:52:44 GMT

The EEEs are beautiful, but have a build quality that you might politely call 'rickety', still for that price, who's complaining? And actually they're just over half as much as an iBook (although there are Mac laptops for nearly 10x as much).

re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

CF — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:09:39 GMT

The eee is amazing. When my boyfriend bought one, I thought it was just another one of those pointless bits of gadgetry that men are so fond of accumulating. Then I realised it fitted in my handbag and seemed pretty much indestructable and that it was a work of genius

If you've got a laptop as your main machine, you're always worried about taking it out and breaking it so this is a great little addition to your computing world. We got the one with a bit more memory and so can even stick a few episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm on there for long train journeys. I love it.

re: Honey I shrunk the Mac

Gordon Macmillan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:25:48 GMT

I've been looking at these and I really want one. Heard great things.