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Originally Posted by mogui
Why do manufacturers think we like touchpads?
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Because we do? I have tried both the touchpad and the eraser thing, and with the latter moving my mouse pointer feels like moving tar around. I need my laptop for more than just looking beautiful, so I very much prefer the touchpad.
Having said that: the projected uses for these new sub-notebooks are probably vastly different from how I use my laptop. When I take my laptop with me, I also bring an extra mouse, the power brick and whatever other gadget I think is necessary to recreate the desktop experience.
But these new sub-notebooks are probably intended to be entirely self-contained: you only bring the sub-notebook along. And in that case the mouse input needs to be as user friendly as possible for as many people as possible. So what would be a good solution? Touch screen?
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Originally Posted by mogui
This article suggests the Eee will support Skype -- my dream come true!
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What! You mean it will support some kind of networking, have a microphone and speakers, and will let you run the software of your choice?!
Kidding aside, a fellow freelancer on the project team I am now on complained the other day that Skype took up a good 80 MB of his memory, so apparently it is quite a feat to get it running on such a small footprint.