Re: Most useless gadget 2007? WAS [Re: Christmas gadgets]

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Depends what you use it for...

I've currently got a seven year old Toshiba Portege that we only use
for surfing the web, reading email via gmail, playing online chess,
Skype etc., it's getting a bit slow and takes an age to boot. If all
you want it a browser a few other things something like a 10" eee PC
would make an ideal replacement

Alternatively I have been playing with replacing the hard drive in it
with an SSD and running xubuntu on it instead.

Andy

On Dec 24, 2007 11:55 AM, Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > Might wait and see if Asus do a 10" version of the eee PC
and spend
> > the money on that instead.
>
> I really fail to see what the attraction of these things is. It's a
> small PC that's too small to be any use other than a glorified PDA.
>
> I willing to be convinced otherwise though. :)
>