Re: maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Otared Kavian wrote:
>> How about the MacBook Air?…
>> It is some 1300 grams (but indeed more expensive).
>
> indeed much more expensive (my current workhorse is a dell M90); i  
> have
> a 17 in mac sitting dead on a desk for year snow ... too closed
> hard/software to figure out the problem (i could have bought 10  
> EEEPC's
> for the money)
>
> anyhow, for me the ieee solution sounds like a nice way to carry tex  
> to
> a conference instead of a production machine -)
>
> Hans

Yes, the MacBook Air is nice, but in a completely different league -  
price, specs etc. For me, the form factor was also very important: I  
wanted something as small as possible, and the MBA has the same size  
as a regular laptop.  As for carrying TeX to a conference: the really  
great thing is that you can have different operating systems on SDHC  
cards. I have one with Mandriva and one with SuSE and want to try  
Ubuntu next week. So you could have different TeX installs and switch  
very quickly and cleanly.

I would've gone for the 9" as well, but given the looooooong wait for  
the first generation, I don't think you'll be able to actually buy one  
of those before the end of the summer. The 7" was announced for  
November, then December, then February...

Thomas
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