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by Michael Tan, Singapore

My Eee PC is now almost 100 percent used with Chrome OS: Booting from SD card

Nov 26, 2009 09:56

My Eee PC 701 4G is now almost entirely used with Chrome OS as of a few days back.

After all, what good is an Eee PC otherwise? Surfing only, that's what. We don't use it to play 3D games, I've a big rig for that. SAP--we leave it to my ThinkPad X61 with VPN. It's not being used to torrent--I've a NAS and a big rig for that. I watch movies with the PS3 or PSP, not the Eee PC.

I've high-tech lenses in my spectacles and I can resolve pretty small stuff sharply, so the 800 x 480-pixel screen almost fits everything in most Webpages if I zoom the text small enough.

For those of you who are interested in playing with Chrome OS in 5 minutes (excluding torrent time), just read the blurb here:
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Microsoft gets ready to send the first suicide bomber to Google

Nov 24, 2009 10:28

Here's a thread which will get everybody up to speed:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/4030311.htm

So it seems Microsoft would pay News Corp to de-list its news sites from the Google search index. Bing is nowhere near Microsoft in search engine popularity, and with all the new stuff that Google is churning out--as if a spaceship had landed and all the aliens went to work at the Googleplex--it doesn't seem that it would change.
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The best version of Windows yet for Netbooks

Nov 23, 2009 11:08

I was waiting to DESTROY the Linux OS which came with my Eee PC for some time now. It's bloody inflexible, requires you to know "sudo" crap, command lines cannot be committed to my meager memory and instead have to be cut-and-pasted from forum advice. And I couldn't get the Chrome browser to work properly on it. The Wi-Fi didn't connect automatically and I couldn't expect my 4.5-year-old kid to choose the proper access points, etc., when all he wants to do is watch YouTube and play Playhouse Disney Flash games.
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Sundar Pichai spoilt the Chrome OS Webcast for me

Nov 20, 2009 11:43

I'm sorry, but I found him an irritable person bordering onto rude. He's not a born evangelist. He was snappish, did not present his answers to questions properly, clearly showed and probably wanted to demonstrate his irritation at stupid questions from stupid people. He cut people off rudely.

Listen to the podcast and form your own opinions.
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You can sit back to watch YouTube now

Nov 10, 2009 14:51

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A great man, the one who heads the team which developed the world's first low-cost MPEG-4 decoder with SoC chip, once told me: "There are just two ways to interact with an immobile display screen. You either lean forward or sit back. Chances are when you're leaning forward, you're not in the mood to enjoy a movie."
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About Michael Tan

Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.