From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40539 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:31 +0200 Message-ID: <2447232A-5125-4677-A6F9-092F81F04705@uni-bonn.de> References: <67A3F6C6-B778-49DD-8201-68FF8B66AA35@uni-bonn.de> <059A0B40-543C-4DFC-8438-7B12C1B05A58@gmail.com> <480B429D.1030409@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208702105 11161 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2008 14:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:35:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 20 16:35:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jnadj-0003mg-2T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:35:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C221FC00; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:34:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11820-01-5; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:34:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741A11FC5D; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:34:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53911FC5D for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:34:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11820-01-4 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout11.t-online.de (mailout11.t-online.de [194.25.134.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D101FC16 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd33.aul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1Jnabr-0006jL-01; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:39 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (TiZ-sZZErhMVhL+KmfykvSorKD00qq3GhHq4n8hM2vHQ-w0OK88vS6qFpEq+bAAQXw@[87.178.85.92]) by fwd33.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Jnabk-1ZnuVM0; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:33:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <480B429D.1030409@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-ID: TiZ-sZZErhMVhL+KmfykvSorKD00qq3GhHq4n8hM2vHQ-w0OK88vS6qFpEq+bAAQXw@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: e0fcfbf7-7d9c-4dc9-93d5-c5672d24fb44 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40539 Archived-At: On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Otared Kavian wrote: >> How about the MacBook Air?=85 >> 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... 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