On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:03 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-07-11, Roy Lanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just try with a notebook--then you might become interested > > in monitoring a few things; and I am not sure ion's own > > statusbar is i) "quite enough," ii) the best place to put > > them on ... > > The laptop I have is a 486/25MHz/8MB with battery live of zero > seconds. I use it as a serial terminal to fix hung X occasionally. > (Recently it's been crashing more -- a lot -- though.) And the > newer laptops also aren't good enough to bother with either. > Too Fucking Expensive,
There exists a second-hand market, where laptops are much cheaper. > Fragile And Battery-Hungry or Too Fucking > Bulky To Be Considered Even A Laptop, Let Alone A Mobile Computer > (which few laptops are). The OLPC is probably the best laptop out > there, supposing the screen really works in low-power mode too... The screen is a thing of beauty, but I doubt you'd get on with the keyboard. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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