Life is an interesting fenomenon, and during the recent centuries human beings of what we call the western world seem to have lost touch with nature, our origin. Through evolution we have become more aware of ourselves we tend to spend more time thinking about why we are and what to do with life.
Why are we here?
However, philosophies rooted in east often seem to have a smaller gap to our inner selves and tend to provide some answers to this very question. Dalai Lama almost childishly simply but accurately states in his book The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
that “the meaning of life is happiness”. How much effort have we not spent on trying to figure out why we exist, and he gives the simple ansver on the very first page. Brilliant! What else could serve a better purpouse in life?
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Huge improvment by Samsung with the NC10 Netbook on some stuff, but I also miss some things on my Asus eee 901 netbook… my quick update is just around the corner.
UPDATE:
I need to admit that the public reviews hold strong when it comes to the NC10, the white version (the black one is a fingerprint magnet) is extremely good, the keyboard is just as large as it has to be, i.e. almost a full sizer.
9.5 points for a netbook that follows the main stream specs. The only thing that they missed was a card reader that wouldn’t leave 4mm of the card sticking out of the front body, making it rather unconvenient to use a SDHC card for ReadyBoost, secondary drive, or something else that would require the card to be permanently inserted.
Outside of that, I can’t really complain about anything. If you need a netbook, this is the one to get today.
Mattias Netbook NC10, Netbook, Samsung
Howdy! Just got my Asus ee PC 901 8.9″ netbook back from service so I’m trying it our to write this pos. I had it for 3 short weeks before the fan collapsed. Asus managed to get the tiny thing fixed in “only” 6 weeks (THAT is what is call great customer service). Anyway, there are heaps of good netbook reviews out there already so I’ll be very short and generic in my comments.
Over all, I really like the idea of the netbook, as personally, I do not spend time gaming nor do I handle my image/video editing on a laptop (that’s why I have my Mac Mini on my desk downstairs). The netbook fits perfectly the need of having a quick PC that gives you access to the Web, email and office products.
Overall, the products out there are great but there are a few things that they should have combined into one device to hit the sweet spot. Today, many of these features exist in separate products, I’m still hoping to see them together. I’m composing this improvement proposal as the quick and dirty specs for a highly competetive netbook that I would buy any second:
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First Impression (4/5)
I was really excited about the release of the new Linux based OS2008 for Nokia Internet Tablets (N800 and N810) and after getting my hands on the tools to upgrade my old N800 to OS2008 I was both impressed by the improvements but also depressed by the missing polish of the user experience.
Reading about the release before trying it out raised my expectations even higher, as early bird discussion boards give you the impression that the OS2008 release was clearly faster than previous versions, even increasing the clock speed of the N800. Also, using your clumsy fingers instead of a stylus with the touch screen was highlighted as one of the many aims to make it much more user friendly. An expanded portfolio of cool and useful applications like maps and navigation was also on the shortlist of improvements. The Nokia team and open source community now had my very high expectations to manage.
Firing up the newly flashed Nokia N800 Internet Tablet went well and the new look and feel, showing off the now so trendy glassy UI made me feel like I had a new device in my hands. Playing around with the new, simplified menu structure optimized for fingertip usage reinforced the early discussion board comments about better usability. So the first impression was great, I give full credit to the development team for these great enhancements.
Unfortunately, this is where the much of the fun ended!
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