Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:57 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
CC: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Just passing through ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
> Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> As many of you know, my computer access is either from work or on the
>> road from a hotel computer; that's right kiddies: no home computer.
>
> Oh, go get one!  They're cheap!  If space is an issue, try this one:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-Fit-PC2-Win7-Professional-Nettop/dp/B002ULGRLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1265738619&sr=8-1
>
> It's half the size of a paperback book, but has a gig of RAM, a 2.5"
> SATA drive (160 gigs in most models, but if you get the one without a
> drive or OS, you can have whatever you like...mine has 500 gigs, and
> Ubuntu Linux), outputs HDMI video, and uses a 1.6 Ghz Atom processor.
> You can leave it on all the time too...only 6 watts and no sound (the
> only moving part is the HD, and you can get a SSD instead and eliminate
> that too).

Not counting my base system or work brick (laptop), I wound up with an HP
netbook ("Mini") as a Verizon promotion (?!?!?!), and so saved 90+% of the cost
($40 s&h was it). All I do with it is surf the web and email, and streaming
media, when I'm not home. I don't need it to do more....

  mark "XP, and trying to decide if I'll put Linux on, instead"
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