Super-Zero

After months of internal debate (mainly in my own head) I decided to buy an Apple iPad over a netbook. There were a few well formed reasons for making this decision as well as a few one would come to expect from a crazy techno-obsessed student.

Battery-life: For me this was the big hitter. I currently own a MacBook Pro as my main laptop (2008 Unibody edition to be precise) and while I love it to pieces for great high powered mobile computing, it’s battery life really sucks – were talking 2-3 hours here with wifi on. With wifi off the max I have been able to squeeze out of it (screen at lowest brightness tick etc) has been about 3 1/2 hours, so its not really amazing.

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HP Compaq Airlife 100 Is the Netbook that Apple Never Released – hp compaq airlife 100 – Gizmodo.

So the database server has been under “excessive load” according to Streamline so I have been unable to get onto the site in days, however the problem has now been fixed, and I now have a redundancy I place lest it happen again…Huurah for that.

Right now I am also surfing the new Wi-Fi system that’s being deployed at Queens University (where I study) which, although it was a bit complicated to hook up my MacBook Pro to, is actually rather speedy and smooth (although they have blocked MSN ports ).

On the web-comic front – there are some in the works I am told, although I’m not sure if its going to be one artist or two yet.

And just to give you all something to drool over, Deuwin (my web goto-guy and my very good friend) pointed this out too me the other day…and boy was I found wanting…

Images taken from the exclusive review at MaximumPC, because I can’t afford one…

I think this is an awesome design. I can’t wait to see what the cooling potential of a case like this is, because with individual heat-source isolated, directed airflow will be so much easier, and hot-spots should be practically non-exisistant, or at least have no effect on the case ambient temperature.

I wish I had more money…