On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's stupid! Even if the battery is nearly unusable, you can still buy > a new one instead of buying a new computer (I also heard about people > who build their own batteries ;)). Buying a new computer if the old one > is not entirely broken just contributes to these huge e-waste dumps in > Africa and Asia.
...except that I don't throw away my old laptops. I still have them. All of them. All the way back to my 486 Thinkpad 755CDV. I rebuild batteries pretty frequently, for my power tools. Rebuilding a simple NiMH battery is a different task than some customized, proprietary LiPoly job. It's just not feasible (or cheap). A new battery for my T43 would have set me back at least a hundred dollars and a few hours of labor to rebuild myself, and buying one new is obviously more expensive. Since I was *already* unhappy with the size of the computer, it didn't seem like a good investment. I plugged it into my KVM, and it's serving as a desktop machine now. > or take my IBM > Model M keyboard which was manufactured somewhen in the 1980s (It even > survived a chemical laboratory - well, I took some hours to clean it ;)). I have a box of about forty of these I got from a recycling center. They're the only keyboards I use at home -- but I don't intend to carry one around with me all day. > But tiling doesn't work effectively on these screens (at least on my > screen it doesn't). I haven't had any problems. I just use bottomstack. > I meant this seriously. I didn't touch a EEE PC 1000, but for the EEE PC > 700 this is true. I haven't seen someone using this as his development > computer or computer for longer works. You have now. I develop on my Acer, and I use it to manage the entire computer science department network at my campus. > I didn't say that these netbooks are no computers or have bad > performance (I prefer an Intel Atom CPU to a Dual Core processor), I > just said, if the manufacturers would build exactly the same machines > with bigger displays, the computers would be a good choice - at least > currently they are in the majority of cases just toys. Not everyone wants a big screen. My desktop computer at home serves me quite well with a 14" monitor. Likewise, I have no problem with my Acer. > Additionally I can't understand, why all people started to carry around > laptops (what's the difference between laptop and notebook?) with > themselves, except they are maybe professionals (programmers, > scientists, ...) and travel a lot. I don't have to have a laptop to sit > in an internet cafe during holidays. I carry around a laptop because I use computers a lot and frequently find it more convenient to bring my own. There are no internet cafes where I live. > All the world seems to be busy (or at least pretend this) and therefore > has to run around with mobile devices (mobile phones, laptops, ...) in > order to do their "important" work. In my opinion these mobile devices > are just modern today and people often just buy them and use them in the > public for no reason, just to show who they are. It became some kind of > status symbol. > If your at an airport, just look at the screens of these "business > men" - nearly nobody of them does serious work (or at least I got the > impression). You can also observe this at internet cafes or railway > stations. I don't see how this relates to whether or not a netbook is a useful tool, or how it relates to whether dwm runs well on one. #Kurt H Maier
