This is exactly the reason that social media is so relevant today (online ratings and reviews, blogs, etc) - I don't necessarily feel the need to try out a keyboard for myself.. the first thing I will do is search for reviews that tell me which netbooks have good keyboards, and which ones are too cramped, then buy the one that has good reviews. Spending 10 minutes reading reviews is a much more effective use of my time than driving across town, parking, finding the right model in the store, etc. I see a day where the need for those showrooms largely goes away.
MOD PARENT UP - anyone who says that gender roles are learned and not intrinsic has never had children. I've got both boys and girls. My older boys will make the dolls 'fight', and my younger daughter picks up 2 motorcycles and has the mommy motorcycle take care of the baby motorcycle. This stuff isn't learned - it's how they come.
You're obviously never had kids. Do you have any idea how often the triple-screen (or now quad-screen) is wrong? I've personally known 3 different families who had learned during the pregnancy that their child supposedly had some deformality or defect, only to learn these predictions were false once the baby was born.
Science isn't 100%, as much as some people here would like to believe.
WTF? You call a machine with a RAID array, desktop wireless, and dual-head FAIRLY STOCK?? Sure, only like 2.2% of people have a stock machine that looks like that.
The games my kids play most on my old-school Xbox are the old Taito Legends and Namco Museum. They're 3 and 5. I guess I see a minimal benefit to improved hand-eye coordination, but I certainly wouldn't call these games educational. They way I look at it, these old games have little of the gore and other adult situations that many of the new games have... so I'm more likely to let them play.
Heck, these old games didn't scar us when we were growing up.
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Are you kidding? How long have you lived in Minnesota? The interstates are snow white from Jan to March at least.
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MOD PARENT UP - anyone who says that gender roles are learned and not intrinsic has never had children. I've got both boys and girls. My older boys will make the dolls 'fight', and my younger daughter picks up 2 motorcycles and has the mommy motorcycle take care of the baby motorcycle. This stuff isn't learned - it's how they come.
You're obviously never had kids. Do you have any idea how often the triple-screen (or now quad-screen) is wrong? I've personally known 3 different families who had learned during the pregnancy that their child supposedly had some deformality or defect, only to learn these predictions were false once the baby was born. Science isn't 100%, as much as some people here would like to believe.
WTF? You call a machine with a RAID array, desktop wireless, and dual-head FAIRLY STOCK?? Sure, only like 2.2% of people have a stock machine that looks like that.
The games my kids play most on my old-school Xbox are the old Taito Legends and Namco Museum. They're 3 and 5. I guess I see a minimal benefit to improved hand-eye coordination, but I certainly wouldn't call these games educational. They way I look at it, these old games have little of the gore and other adult situations that many of the new games have... so I'm more likely to let them play. Heck, these old games didn't scar us when we were growing up.
So what is the point of buying an incredibly thin and light laptop if you plan to lug around a few spare batteries?