Comments on: TTN – Taxis, TVs, and Netbook

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:36:42 +0000

Hi Tara!
Thao referred me to you, saying that you were interested in hosting me?

Gah, that taxi driver is horrible. I used the taxi a lot when I was in VN and during the rides my eyes were fixed on the metre. They are very tricky over there and like your driver, they won’t drive if the destination is close. They’ll drive you if you promise to pay them a bit extra.

By: Ongaku

Ongaku — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:14:27 +0000

I hate taxi cap drivers. Mine wasn’t super rude to us, but I found him to be very offensive and scary. He would make fun of the people standing on the street by taunting them. It made me nervous because what if those people decided to get even and pull our a gun or something? Gawd. -_-

Wow.. the technology. It’s hard to keep up. X_X

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:55:53 +0000

Right now I would love nothing more than a giant iMac desktop AND a MacBook laptop. Macs are my favourites for anything design related and right I’m puttering away on my iBook G4 (going on four years old, the poor thing). It’s still a decent computer but has 40GB of harddrive space which KILLS you when you’re trying to do anything on Photoshop (or have REALLY BIG manuscript files). The resolution doesn’t go any higher than 1024×768 either which is fine, but I would like a computer with a higher resolution capacity. Again, for design purposes, mind you.

I would like one, but I’m not sure if my parents would get me one for Christmas. :(

…I knew there was a reason I never took taxicabs anywhere. Even in New York.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:44:49 +0000

Welcome to the world of netbooks, micro pcs, whatever u wanna call it. Hahaha.

Well there are so many choices of netbooks these days – not just ASUS and Acer. There’s the HP Mini, the MSI Wind, the Fujitsu M1010, and a whole lot more coming out next year. I like the ASUS EEE PC because of the new Go! release. It allows you to insert a SIM card and use it as broadband mobile along with 3G capabilities. They have also partnered with a local telco. If I sign up for a mobile broadband plan with the telco, I get the ASUS at a heavily discounted price. It’ll essentially cost less than a phone.

Choosing a netbook will depend on what you need the netbook for actually. If you’re going to use it as a cheap alternative to a notebook, I suggest you invest in a higher-end netbook like the HP Mini or the MSI Wind that has the same specs as a notebook. But if you’re like me, who already has a high-end notebook at home and is looking for a cheap, micro PC with excellent battery life to lug around everywhere I go, like a phone, then the low-end ASUS is far superior.

There are rumors of Apple developing a netbook of some sort. And with the Google Android coming up on my phones with a full keyboards, I might just wait it out a little more. All I want is a portable gadget with a full keyboard, great connectivity and long battery life so I can blog wherever I go. My phone currently does that but looking at Wordpress in a tiny 2″ screen just isn’t very conducive for blogging.

By: Jowah

Jowah — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:11:12 +0000

Do not get EEPC! It sucks! I’d suggest to buy an Acer Aspire One instead, still a netbook, i bought it last week and works like a charm ;3 Gonna post about it soonish!
Can run photoshop, dreamweaver, msn and even FFXI with no probs! And 160gb HDD :D