Re: maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

How about the MacBook Air?…
It is some 1300 grams (but indeed more expensive).

Best regards: OK

On 19 avr. 08, at 11:42, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my
> experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!).
> Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on
> the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to
> schlepp it almost every day, a normal laptop seems pretty heavy after
> a while, that's why I got me one of those eeepc thingies. Its tiny
> screen and small keyboard scream "I'm just a mobile device, not a
> replacement for a real computer," and it's not the fastest machine
> around. However, my joy is great whenever I stuff the little thing in
> my bag and lift it.
>
> I got the 8GB variant. To do work, I always want all my documents with
> me (so I can easily sync my entire Documents directory between work,
> home, and laptop) and, of course, my TeX installation. My texlive-
> texmf tree now is 1.6 G, so I needed a bit more space than the 4G
> model offers (models with larger screens and hard disks will be
> available soonish). It has a SDHC card reader, so I copied my
> Documents and the TeX installation to the internal disk (a SSD) and
> have my linux installation on a card from which I boot. With a shell
> script, I set the $PATH so I can mount the internal disk and run
> ConTeXt off of it. Everything works wonderfully. As I said, it's a
> slow machine, so you don't want to compile very long documents too
> often, but it does run every flavor of ConTeXt. I often prepare my
> presentations on the train, and this works great: I have the
> environment to which I'm used for editing the source files (emacs +
> ConTeXt) and a pdf viewer open in another workspace. This setup is one
> of the reasons why I prefer a texlive installation to a minimal
> ConTeXt tree: that way, I have to maintain it only once and can sync
> it between my computers. So whoever has to travel a lot: I find it
> wonderful to have such a small and light computer on the road.
>
> All best, have a nice weekend
>
> Thomas
>
>
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