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