ASUS Eee - deal you may know of

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:02:58PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Not to defend the Apple Air, but it does have a wired jack. It's on a 
> hidden drop-down door on the righ-rear side.

Then why isn't this in the specs, and why does the specs suggest an
apple usb ethernet adapter and why has no review of it ever found this
port?  THe spec page even has "No Wi-Fi?  Connect to wired networks with
this simple one-piece external adapter" (USB Ethernet Adapter MB442Z/A).

Only putting display port on the thing was another nut job move,
although perhaps apple users never use external displays.  I did see
recently some complaints that you can't play videos on external monitors
if they require copyprotection, since the copyprotection doesn't work on
vga or dvi connections only native display port.  Apparently that isn't
going over well with some users.

> To replace the hard drive on an iBook G4 took nearly 3h... Strike that, 
> it was 3h to open the damn thing without special tools (if you cared 
> about nor marring up the pretty white plastic). I *hate* working on iBooks!

Yeah they are not end user friendly when it comes to repairs and
upgrades.

> Though I agree with this view 100%, I don't think it's fair to impart 
> this on non-geeks. Many people have an unrealistic view of computer 
> reliability. Just yesterday I had a client, whose optical drive is 
> failing, exclaim "That happens!?" when I told her.

It is reality.  Explaining reality to people IS a good idea.  Trying to
hide reality from people is what makes them think computers are magic
and then get upset when they turn out not to be.

> What we need to do, as geeks, is better educate the non-geek population 
> on the inherent lack of reliability and, thus, the need for frequent 
> backups.

Exactly.

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