Just a CPU [LWN.net]

Just a CPU

Posted Nov 26, 2009 6:01 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Just a CPU by man_ls
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review

The netbook concept is wonderful, but as our editor has discovered it requires some external peripherals: a big screen [...]

I suspect both you and our esteemed editor have missed the point of these devices: They really are netbooks: their purpose in life is make web browsing and other internet activities easily portable. The small keyboard is there mainly because often you need to enter some text into browser windows, not for writing kernel code or epic novels.

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Just a CPU

Posted Nov 26, 2009 13:43 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

And you can connect to people with it!

(does anyone more twittered-up know what that means? It sounds decidedly
disturbing, and given the sorts of people who travel on the London
Underground possibly actively dangerous ;} )

Just a CPU

Posted Dec 3, 2009 1:01 UTC (Thu) by pixelpapst (guest, #55301) [Link]

http://www.xkcd.org/642/