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I keep thinking that what I really want is one of those cute and sexy \"NetBook\" laptops. See, right now, I get a 15\" MacBook Pro from work. But I don't like doing fun stuff with my work laptop any more than I like when my home computer was more powerful than my work computer. And I've got a very fast desktop with a huge case that has tons of room for drives and stuff, so I don't need or really want a fancy laptop for home.

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The problem is, when I tried the early Asus EEE laptops, I discovered that the keyboard was about an inch too small, so it kinda gets squeezed out -- my phone already is a two-finger typing device, so adding a second device that's not fast enough to type with doesn't help that much. The more recent NetBook designs from various folks seem to have this fixed. And the cost for one that's running Linux (I've got one Windows box and I'll keep it that way -- running XP, not Vista) that has a slightly bigger keyboard is not actually that bad.

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I had to decide if I hated the phone company (Pac Bell, who got picked up by SBC, who became AT&T) or the cable company (Comcast, better known as Comcrap) more and decided to go through a reseller of AT&T's DSL connection -- sonic.net. The nice part is that they just have a bunch of smart people on the help line who can debug and fix your problems for you, as opposed to AT&T which has the front-line support wearing drool-proof headsets and three layers before you get to somebody who's paid to have a brain.

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