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What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop?
cheapbob writes "Recently HP officially unveiled a budget ultraportable laptop aimed to compete with the likes of Asus Eee PC. According to Compal, one of Dell's assemblers, Dell is also going to enter the budget ultra-portable market soon. All of these devices lack many of the features associated with larger-sized laptops, such as optical drives and large amounts of storage space, yet demand for them is very high. Initial reviews of these devices unsurprisingly expose them to be underpowered and lacklustre. What's the appeal? What do you think is the perfect balance of features and price point for a budget laptop?"
Or the most common answers:
4)Apple overcharges for mediocre hardware
5)You realize that Mac OS is the worst GUI of the past decade. Really I have to go all the way back to CDE to find a windowing environment I think is worse.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
That's an excellent point, but if you have to travel 4 hrs a day to make a living, maybe that means your skillset isn't high enough that they can pick the location of their job. Companies recruiting people for $200,000 a year are getting people from 2 hours away because the quality talent can choose jobs closer to their home. If you're a B rate employee, it might be worth it to take the 140,000 paycut and work for 60-65K a year and work 10 minutes from work.
Honestly, unless your kid is a supergenius that can't somehow get the scholarship to go to Harvard, and you're not saving the extra money you're making by commuting those extra 3 1/2 hours a day towards early retirement, you're getting an awful return on your time. Throwing your money away on a giant house you hardly ever see doesn't make sense - you can make a much better return on other investments in the long run.
I commuted an hour each way for six months. Because I was starting out and needed the experience to get the job. Once I got the job/raise, I moved 8 minutes from work, and next month will be walking distance from work.
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