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brecklundin · 06-06-2009, 08:25 PM

wodin:

Nice info on the eee 1000HE and W7RC. I have been around Windows since 1.0 when, if people really want to know, it was truly awful. I have had little faith in any version of Windows for a long time. Constantly short on delivery of promised improvements and feature changes/additions. I haven't done my install yet but will get to is soon as the new drive gets here. I forgot I only have one extra SATA drive and the thing is full and I have nowhere to stuff the data on a different drive...d'oh!!

As to the netbook you have now as an ereading device...nobody is saying it should be. We are all looking past that sort of device to later this fall or early winter when the 3Qi displays hit the market in convertible tablet and slate devices. THAT is what is being discussed. And remember even still there are many many people who find no issue reading on a netbook device as they currently exist. It's just that some are less pleased with it than others. In fact some like me find reading on my K1, the Sony 500, Sony 505 and any other eink based reader I've either used to demo'd all very difficult to read on under all but the brightest lighting conditions.

So, for me that makes eink devices as they exist today 100000% NOT viable ebook reading devices. So, I opt for LCD device out of necessity as well as they don't strain my eyes. Plus after 35yrs of either CRT's, LCD or whatever other screens, my eyes are likely as fried as they will ever be...nearly 50 now and still read on them w/o any prob. BUT I have always kept the brightness to the minimum level I need to actually read the or see whatever is on the display. Plus I have always spent my time outdoors in that stuff called SUNLIGHT and no LCD display on the planet can come close to that candlepower beaming into your eye from any direction.

I just am thrilled with the fact even this RC version runs so freak fast and that is WITH the debug code still in there trapping errors.

06-06-2009, 08:25 PM	#8
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	wodin: Nice info on the eee 1000HE and W7RC. I have been around Windows since 1.0 when, if people really want to know, it was truly awful. I have had little faith in any version of Windows for a long time. Constantly short on delivery of promised improvements and feature changes/additions. I haven't done my install yet but will get to is soon as the new drive gets here. I forgot I only have one extra SATA drive and the thing is full and I have nowhere to stuff the data on a different drive...d'oh!! As to the netbook you have now as an ereading device...nobody is saying it should be. We are all looking past that sort of device to later this fall or early winter when the 3Qi displays hit the market in convertible tablet and slate devices. THAT is what is being discussed. And remember even still there are many many people who find no issue reading on a netbook device as they currently exist. It's just that some are less pleased with it than others. In fact some like me find reading on my K1, the Sony 500, Sony 505 and any other eink based reader I've either used to demo'd all very difficult to read on under all but the brightest lighting conditions. So, for me that makes eink devices as they exist today 100000% NOT viable ebook reading devices. So, I opt for LCD device out of necessity as well as they don't strain my eyes. Plus after 35yrs of either CRT's, LCD or whatever other screens, my eyes are likely as fried as they will ever be...nearly 50 now and still read on them w/o any prob. BUT I have always kept the brightness to the minimum level I need to actually read the or see whatever is on the display. Plus I have always spent my time outdoors in that stuff called SUNLIGHT and no LCD display on the planet can come close to that candlepower beaming into your eye from any direction. I just am thrilled with the fact even this RC version runs so freak fast and that is WITH the debug code still in there trapping errors.