Comments on: Netbook for translators? http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2009/10/30/netbook-for-translators/ Random scribbling about programming, translation, and Japan Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:13:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Noo http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2009/10/30/netbook-for-translators/comment-page-1/#comment-11771 Noo Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:48:58 +0000 http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/?p=1318#comment-11771 Yeah, the keyboard makes or breaks the netbook - that or battery life. I think the really wide screen might pose a few balance/stability issues, would it not? Although it is cool how the screens expand like that. Yeah, the keyboard makes or breaks the netbook – that or battery life.
I think the really wide screen might pose a few balance/stability issues, would it not?
Although it is cool how the screens expand like that.

]]> By: Ryan Ginstrom http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2009/10/30/netbook-for-translators/comment-page-1/#comment-11689 Ryan Ginstrom Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:47:08 +0000 http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/?p=1318#comment-11689 @Durf Maybe the next step is a swivel mount, so you can turn the two screens vertical. When OLED's come into commercial production, I think that we'll see more of this type of stacked-screen setup, because OLED's are incredibly thin. As for a Macbook, it may be the same size overall, but a 15" Macbook isn't going to fit into a man purse (unless it's a really big man purse). @Durf

Maybe the next step is a swivel mount, so you can turn the two screens vertical.

When OLED’s come into commercial production, I think that we’ll see more of this type of stacked-screen setup, because OLED’s are incredibly thin.

As for a Macbook, it may be the same size overall, but a 15″ Macbook isn’t going to fit into a man purse (unless it’s a really big man purse).

]]> By: Durf http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2009/10/30/netbook-for-translators/comment-page-1/#comment-11671 Durf Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:18:59 +0000 http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/?p=1318#comment-11671 More screen width is nice, to be sure, but as a translator I'd rather have (a) more screen height (to see more textual context all at once) and (b) a proper keyboard. In both of those areas netbooks continue to fall down--not to mention that this new one, nifty as it looks, manages to cost as much as a MacBook, as well as adding weight and bulk to the thing, thereby poking holes in the netbook's price and portability selling points. More screen width is nice, to be sure, but as a translator I’d rather have (a) more screen height (to see more textual context all at once) and (b) a proper keyboard. In both of those areas netbooks continue to fall down–not to mention that this new one, nifty as it looks, manages to cost as much as a MacBook, as well as adding weight and bulk to the thing, thereby poking holes in the netbook’s price and portability selling points.

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