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DATE | 2008-02-19 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Has anyone else seen these
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From lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue Feb 19 01:58:25 2008 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m1J6wNkk013052 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:58:25 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m1J6wMUu013048 for hangout-outgoings; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:58:22 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lest-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m1J6wJ7A013042; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:58:22 -0500 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m1J6wJZO013041; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:58:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:58:19 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Cc: Ruben Safir Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Has anyone else seen these Message-ID: <20080219065819.GB12895-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <71775d40802180958p3b33cc95m51e33af8e4d0515e-at-mail.gmail.com> <20080218194933.GA2692-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1203368162.1AD9D108-at-fd6.dngr.org> <1203368164.19719C1B-at-fb8.dngr.org> <20080218210759.GA3784-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <20080218211423.GA3952-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1203403162.6175.114.camel-at-jersey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1203403162.6175.114.camel-at-jersey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:39:22AM -0500, Mark Simko wrote: > > > BTW - this machine might be the Walkman of computers. > > What do you mean by that?
Prior to the walkman all portable sereos were bigger, louder and bulkier, needing bigger batteries and drawing more power.
The Walkman revolutionized portable audio be understanding that the vast majority of people didn't need louder bigger portables, but lighter high quality usable designs. It sold by the billions.
Laptops are functioning under the same problematic mindset. We don't need faster, more coplex and bigger laptops. We need smaller, better designed, more portable, less expensive laptops.
This thing is exploiting a long overdue and needed remaker of the market and doing so with almost no marketing. They ARE selling like hotcakes.
and nobody gives a shit if they have dual core 4 gighertz CPUs with 800 gigabyte drives. They care that they can slap them closed and toss them carelessly into their bookbag and take them for a job and make a phone call from them from a wireless hot spot.
Ruben
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