NetBook Bible

I’ve often been perplexed that large (say 10inch) digital photo frames are about half the price of the low end standard laptops (say 15inch). I can’t understand how a machine with so much more complexity would be only twice as much as just getting a (smaller screen). For the difference in price I think I’d rather have a fully functioning laptop than a screen that just shows pictures. The only down side of my plan is that a laptop screen has a little less elegance if left sitting around on the furniture or wall to show pictures.

Now that I’m completely off topic it turns out that the 7″, 8.9″ and 10″ screen sizes that are so common in Netbooks were originally manufactured for digital photo frames. It also explains the cheesy key ring digital photo frames…. made from mobile phone screens.

Both Electric Vagabond and Liliputing have stories on the subject today. I’ll be interested to see how long it is before a Pico Projector is built into a Netbook.

I was going to write a post about the difference between Solid State Disks (SSD) and Hard Disk Drives (HDD) but as JKK is having SSD-Week over on his site, I would be wasting my breath when someone else has done all the hard work.

Head over and check out the 18 minute SSD video he has put together.