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To: Sherman Logan

I bought a small Dell inspiron mini 1012 “netbook” a few years ago.

It came with some version of windows. I used it for a while, worked well. I did not use wifi, but I used a usb cell modem, for internet everywhere your cell phone works.

Small screen, about 10 inch. The best resolution is 1024 x something, so screen real estate is a little limited.

I wanted something that was a laptop, not some limited thing like a tablet, so I could use software normally - the thing is just a PC.

Very light, easy to carry. Has a real keyboard that is just big enough so I can type normally.

Battery lasts a long time.

It includes a real ethernet port so you can plug it in normally.

3 usb ports.

It’s great.

Then, windoze got hammered by some hacking whilst I had it on the same router as another machine. win was so mixed up, I gave up and just installed CentOS. (just needed to plug a usb dvd in and boot from it, no problem).

Since then it’s been great.

If you have really demanding software you’ll find it a little slower processor. But for normal use it is fine. spreadsheets, web, etc.

just my 2 cents !


8 posted on 04/18/2015 4:21:28 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Thanks, but that’s not a tablet or hybrid.


16 posted on 04/18/2015 6:11:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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