Tiny Technology
Here's a post from Clifford [woodchuck62] Green, with a bit of grammar based correction on my part. PS: Cliff's views do not directly reflect the views of IZation Labs or it's owner and creator. Please be responsible.
When I look for new computer products I always look for a great deal, unique products, and the smallest size available. Two of my most recent purchases along these lines are the Super Talent Pico C 8Gb flash drive and the Acer Aspire One 150 Laptop.
A couple of months ago I was looking for a replacement for my old Patriot 1Gb flash drive. After a couple hours of shopping I found this; the Pico Series by Super Talent. It was the physically smallest flash drive in the market, and at 8Gb and only $27 with free shipping it was quite the deal. It runs warm to the touch after transferring files larger than 500mb, and I lose it in the couch frequently. I wear a lot of shirts with a pocket and I sometimes forget that I have it there. Well worth the buy and it run portable apps perfectly even though I have heard that this model can suddenly “die”.
(*Editors note: Mine did die. I’ve just been too lazy to get a refund yet. It really is an amazing little piece of equipment though.*)
I have been shopping for a laptop ever since my school laptop was given the ‘Deep Freeze’. As of this summer, net books caught my eye. Net books are laptops with no optical drive and really small screens and keyboards. Currently the company ASUS is charging $450 or more for their systems (Eee PC 901 series) with the brand new Intel Atom processor (1.6 GHz).
Acer had the hardware specs that I wanted and Windows XP for $350. The only trade off that I have was not getting a Solid State Drive. After messing around with my system for a day, I love it. It’s so small and dinky. Folded up the Acer One is smaller and lighter than most school textbooks. The keyboard is indeed smaller, but after a couple of sentences I had adapted to the news layout size. The screen is too small for gaming or serious photo editing, but just right for Open Office 3.0 and already ripped movies. It’s also worth mentioning that through the VGA out plug you can run a extended desktop with another monitor. With a 1024 x 600 resolution LCD, a 1.6 GHz processor, 1Gb ram, and a 120 GB hard drive I think that I did good. And for all of those who call it too small, I typed almost 400 words and cropped/resized the photos with this machine.
