The netbook I recently purchased has opened me up to some new needs to make it fit the role I needed it to fill. One of the devices I needed, since it was not included, was bluetooth. I would normally order my parts and devices from Newegg, but I opted to check out Frys instead. My requirements for a bluetooth device were simple: A2DP capable and low profile. I found a few devices that fit this role, and opted for the cheap one, a Zoom 4322. I have to say, you get what you pay for.
I recently bought a netbook, as indicated by a previous post. The netbook I chose, based on aesthetics, performance, and other criteria was the Acer Aspire One model 532h. The transition to a low power computer has been smoother than I expected, and so far, I’m finding a netbook more useful than I anticipated. So here, I will review the netbook I got. Keep in mind this is my first one.
I’d been considering getting a netbook for a while, even before I got my Asus laptop. The idea sounded good, to me, but at the time I got the laptop, their performance was nowhere near what I wanted. As a result, I went with a 14″ laptop, which I figured would be small enough to be portable, big enough to be usable, powerful enough to do whatever I wanted, and portable enough to take it out of home. It was a huge compromise. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the balance I was looking for, and my requirements were leaning back on getting a netbook. I finally made the jump about a week ago.
I’ve made an addition to my website to allow me a bit more freedom of what to post. Obviously, as this is my website, I can do whatever the hell I want. However, I kinda restricted myself when I redesigned and reinvented my site to be an interests blog, putting the focus on my hobbies rather than my life. I intended to separate my personal stuff from my hobbyist postings, but this left me fragmented on how I was doing all of this. What ended up happening is personal happenings occurred through twitter and my twitter block hosted these microblog posts.
The problem is, it’s hard to post some things in just 140 characters.
I do also post on Facebook, which allows more than 140 characters, but it’s not linked to my account, and, again, it’s not really a blog site. Also, I don’t use Facebook all that much.
My solution is to bring personal blogging back to my site, but as a separate location on my site. I created a personal blog category and excluded it from the front page, and then created a separate page to access it. There are some problems with this. The way the posts are accessed are more like a feed access rather than a blog page. For now, I will leave it this way. I’m trying to keep everything together to make as little management as possible, but things may have to change further.
So with that said, I shall soon be posting a bit more. I do have more in the pipe to be published, but I need to proofread and maybe rewrite a couple.
Apple is really pushing the iPad as being superior to the netbook. Their marketing is in full swing to prove it. If you haven’t seen the iPad, it is basically a giant iPod Touch with a stronger hardware platform. This means it’s not a full computing platform, but rather, appears to be, and is designed to be, a media device. However, it’s being marketed as being more capable because of its improved hardware specifications and display size.
