[Cialug] laptop suggestions

[Matt Stanton]

You're taking away all the good reasons to buy a shiny new toy!  :(

There certainly are much cheaper ways to do what you want than to get a tablet with a keyboard dock.  The current Asus Transformers start at $400, and the keyboard docks cost an additional $150.  For that you can get a decent 2nd or 3rd generation Core i5 laptop (unless the Apple logo is on it).  It does make sense to go the way of the tablet if you want to get a tablet anyway, though.  I was just trying to point out that many of the thing you might want a netbook to do you can get done with a tablet.  After I bought the keyboard dock for my Transformer I found that I no longer used my netbook, so I ended up giving it to my mom.  It's amazing how much further Android has come since then, too.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

Sent from my ASUS Transformer



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] laptop suggestions

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:19:23PM -0500, Matt Stanton wrote:
> Of course, you can get a netbook for much cheaper that one of these
> tablets + the keyboard dock, but you get something that comes with a lot
> of media goodies that might make it worth it to you over a netbook that
> may not be able to play HD media.

One could also use ffmpeg to convert videos down to a smaller size, eg,
taking hd1080 down to hd480.  I'm typing right now on a $100 surplus
laptop that plays hd480 flawlessly.

If someone came up to me on the street (and I didn't think they were
crazy) and offered me $250 to convert videos occasionally with ffmpeg, I
would jump at the opportunity.

Nicolai
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