- Acer bumps Dell to number three in world PC sales. Dell then adds Ross Perot Jr. to its board.
- Oracle may do something weird with MySQL.
- Bing dies for an hour.
- Nvidia begins to complain about Intel.
- Hearst going digital?
- BenQ has an e-reader.
- Idiot takes pictures of self with stolen cell phone. Phone emails pics to owner.
- Google DNS under attack by critics.
- Intel i9 sold on eBay.
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I love Acer netbooks. They don’t make rubbish, their designs are unashamedly Chinese in sensibility, strong in places where they need to be and light where they do not. The quality of the plastic and moldings, finishes and textures, are on the same level or better than Dell netbooks which can cost twice as much. And their circuitry is well designed and reliable, efficient and effective. I own a $US300 Acer Aspire One netbook. It is fast enough, good enough, small enough and reliable.
Interesting part of Bing story: it goes down for 1/2 hour and no one notices. Imagine if Google went off line for that long?
MySql is yutzy anyways (read/write when it feels like, bulk inserts suck, etc). If you like open source, go to Postgres as fast as your little legs will carry you.
Oh by the way, this is what a Bing outage looks like. They really need a dancing toaster 500 internal server error page.
>> sargasso said, on December 5th, 2009 at 6:32
>> I love Acer netbooks.
I have an early Aspire One with Linux and I just love it, too.
I also agree that the build is good for such a cheap machine.
There is some UK web site that judges a computer (or other gizmo)’s quality by the power button. They reason that if the engineers put a lot of thought into the power button the rest of the machine will be good, too.
The Aspire One was the best of the Netbooks based on that standard, when I read the review. That was year ago, however.
Oh, I forgot to add something….
I think my Netbook makes a pretty darn-good eBook reader — at about the same price!
If dedicated eBook readers are going to succeed they need to be much much cheaper. Why pay near-laptop prices when you can just get a laptop to read eBooks? Or, similarly, use your iPhone or similar.