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I've been using the ASUS Ep121 for a year and a half now. Nothing beats it for portability. Why? (1) Same power as the Zenbook Prime. (2) WACOM digitizer pen which, if you haven't used a WACOM, I don't blame you for thinking pen-based computing sucks; it rocks for notes. (3) Bluetooth keyboard is light, slim, NOT chiclet, and OPTIONAL. (4) Really good battery life. (5) Full HDMI video output.
So it is very much a slate and a laptop. The only drawback is that, about once a week, it freezes...but the reboot off the SSD is only 20 seconds, so who cares?
I keep waiting for something to surpass it, but so far, nothing does. My next move will be to install Windows 8 onto it.
Commented Sep 23, 2012 on The Last PC Laptop at Coding Horror
The Last PC Laptop
I've been chasing the perfect PC laptop for over a decade now. Though I've tolerated lugging around five to seven pound machines because I had to, laptops were always about portability first and most of all to me. I quickly gravitated to so-called ultraportable laptops as soon as they became ...
Where's the comparison of books to their predecessor, scrolls, or to their predecessor, clay tablets, or to their predecessor, rock walls? I'd also add "what about their predecessor, oral communication?" But that's been done: http://www.amazon.com/Orality-Literacy-New-Accents-Walter/dp/0415281296
Commented Apr 12, 2012 on Books: Bits vs. Atoms at Coding Horror
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...
I have been in environments where the corporate culture has stratified employees so strongly (strongly typed, har-har) by their titles that meetings were blessings...when they happened. If you work in a place where each "level" refuses to acknowledge anybody lower, even in passing by in the hall, then meetings are the only place a larger picture of your work effort can emerge.
Commented Feb 14, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
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