<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I can't justify a $1700 laptop anymore. All I do is surf, email, and write code. Can't imagine needing much for that. I have a netbook and Acer. The netbook, atom, is just a bit slow for compiling. Acer works well.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>So Chris, it looks like you're the demographic Google is looking for. Chrome OS here you come! :D<div><br></div><div>Not sure I'm going against the grain here, but I don't mind that their notebook bites off Apple a bit. Apple is known for their design skills. So; use the design skills from Apple and the computing power of whatever FOSS is under the hood and boom! A marketable product.<br clear="all">
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