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macsparky.com - 4/27/2009

The Netbook Experiment at MacSparky

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This week I had the opportunity to spend a few days driving a Dell Mini 9 OS X enabled netbook. For the uninitiated, Netbooks are those tiny computers you see people pull out of their pockets in airports and places that sale lots of expensive coffee. Like the MacBook Air, these computers give up ...

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cultofmac.com - 5/5/2009

Is THIS the New Apple Netbook???

— cultofmac.com — Cult of Mac received this image tonight from a trusted contributor - and we just had to... share. We have more images that will take time to process and details about the provenance of this device we must parse, so bear with us until all can ... (more) Is THIS the New Apple Netbook???

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macformat.co.uk - 4/30/2009

The Apple NetBook

— macformat.co.uk — The world and his dog, it would seem, want Apple to make a netbook. Even that part... of the world that has no idea what a netbook is wants Apple to make one. (more) The Apple NetBook

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gizmodo.com - 4/30/2009

iPhone vs Asus Netbook Extreme Typing Test [IPhone Vs Netbook]

— gizmodo.com — Crave UK's Rory Reid did a great experiment: Test the typing accuracy of the iPhone vs an... Asus Netbook in a rally car racing at full speed. The video and the results will surprise you. Jump to minute 2:00 to get into the test itself: iPhone ... (more) iPhone vs Asus Netbook Extreme Typing Test [IPhone Vs ...

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Road Tested: Why the hackb00k is a fail
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... A tweet this afternoon pointed me to a post by Dave "MacSparky" Sparks titled The Netbook Experiment, in which he talked about his disappointment with a Dell mini 9 netbook. Since I was about to send out a tweet to the world at large announcing the sale of my Dell mini 9, I found it fascinating that Sparks had a similar experience to mine. ...

Six Months With a Hackintosh Netbook: It Ain’t Pretty
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Given all these issues, I became pretty jaded about my netbook — hence my lack of mentioning it here at Wired.com in recent months. I ended up selling my MacBook Pro and buying the latest unibody model refurbished, and now I rarely use my netbook. So unfortunately, I have to agree with Dave “MacSparky” Sparks and ...

The netbook blacklash
The Apple Core — ... and Dave Sparks ( The Netbook Experiment) . As you probably guessed from the headlines both Sande and Sparks deride the netbook’s several (and obvious) compromises, including it’s keyboard, trackpad and smallish SSD. Geez guys, tell us something that we don’t know! Response from some of my colleagues ranged from vitriolic outrage to passive agreement. My take on the netbooks situation comes from a heated comment thread under one of my previous netbook pieces that simply read: It sounds like a netbook won’t work for you. Don’t buy one. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. ...