In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tim Smith
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on Thu, 08 May 2008 13:19:45 -0700
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> In article <712cf5-0j7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Apple has its own issues. One of them is that they have
>> the notion of quality / fadness / etc., honed to a fairly
>> high art. How useful is the iPhone, really? The Mac Air?
>> And yet, both of them are considered cool and now and hip
>> and neat and rad and sick and whatever the lingo is nowadays...
>>
>> (My nx9010 has a floppy, a DVD reader, and space for a true
>> hard drive. Granted, flash drives are neat nowadays, but the
>> Air needs an *external* DVD unit to read DVDs.)
>
> Did you really mean nx9010 there, or is that a typo?
>
> When I Google for nx9010, I find some HP laptop that
> is very heavy and has a small screen--not something I
> would think one would compare to an Air.
>
The nx9010 is the one I have. ;-) It's not the most
modern of units. And yes, it's quite heavy; I get
good exercise just carrying my briefcase containing it.
(As it turns out, it just fits in my briefcase. A larger
display would not.)
I don't pretend to be hip, just hopefully well-informed.
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