I have/tried/ to work on 7 inch, it is barely readable but for longer time utterly useless - funny thing it was on a ultraportable ibm 10 years ago, a thing with no keyboard and touchscreen, the memory kept falling out of it sockets too:)
Then i have used 10", 11", 12" and 13" laptops, numerous palms and a few other strange things, and found that for everyday use of several hours, the minimum useful (for more than simple text) is 13" - otherwise it will be only useful for short transit, i would certainly use an iphone/ipodtouch together with a macbook air instead of trying to get everything on something in between - and for editing photos 15" is barely enough
And after 10 years of windows i must say comparing the physical specs of macbooks and winbooks is like comparing houses in different countries, if you can get mansion in iraq for half the price than a flat in germany would you still call that a comparision? - the basic issues of stability and productivity of the os is way more important than small differences in price, weight, speed and battery life, and i must personally agree with the canadian study that showed a 40% productivity advantage when using osx compared to windows
Thus i right now use mac only, and the few 100$ i spent extra has already saved themselves in more worktime, if i was to advise a company i would not be in doubt, especially with the iphone entourage software rolling out in june
Years ago, someone made the joke of using the name "entbloess" (which is german) for a program mimicking exposé (which is french:) it is now called Reflex Vision and sits as standard on my windows machine and those of my mac friends who have to use win at work.
Reflex Vision is cheap and relatively functional given the limitations of windows. As for dashboard, it was originally known as "konfabulator" and seemingly copied by apple, after which yahoo bought konfabulator renaming it yahoo widgets.
On my mac i had to turn all widgets off conserve memory, but that was due to the shops misinformation that osx Tiger would work on 512mb ram, now seeing some of the nice effects of Enlightenment coming to osx Leopard i will consider getting a mac mini again, they are so cute:)
I have saved several computers from being bugged down and annoyed to yell with Norton, and after much investigation, I settled on NOD32 - whereas it is 'only' as good as norton at virusdetection, it takes in wilds at 100%, tested the fastest on vista too, and almost invisible, sometimes i find myself check my iconbar to see its still around...
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I have /tried/ to work on 7 inch, it is barely readable but for longer time utterly useless - funny thing it was on a ultraportable ibm 10 years ago, a thing with no keyboard and touchscreen, the memory kept falling out of it sockets too:)
Then i have used 10", 11", 12" and 13" laptops, numerous palms and a few other strange things, and found that for everyday use of several hours, the minimum useful (for more than simple text) is 13" - otherwise it will be only useful for short transit, i would certainly use an iphone/ipodtouch together with a macbook air instead of trying to get everything on something in between - and for editing photos 15" is barely enough
And after 10 years of windows i must say comparing the physical specs of macbooks and winbooks is like comparing houses in different countries, if you can get mansion in iraq for half the price than a flat in germany would you still call that a comparision? - the basic issues of stability and productivity of the os is way more important than small differences in price, weight, speed and battery life, and i must personally agree with the canadian study that showed a 40% productivity advantage when using osx compared to windows
Thus i right now use mac only, and the few 100$ i spent extra has already saved themselves in more worktime, if i was to advise a company i would not be in doubt, especially with the iphone entourage software rolling out in june
Years ago, someone made the joke of using the name "entbloess" (which is german) for a program mimicking exposé (which is french:) it is now called Reflex Vision and sits as standard on my windows machine and those of my mac friends who have to use win at work.
Reflex Vision is cheap and relatively functional given the limitations of windows. As for dashboard, it was originally known as "konfabulator" and seemingly copied by apple, after which yahoo bought konfabulator renaming it yahoo widgets.
On my mac i had to turn all widgets off conserve memory, but that was due to the shops misinformation that osx Tiger would work on 512mb ram, now seeing some of the nice effects of Enlightenment coming to osx Leopard i will consider getting a mac mini again, they are so cute:)
I have saved several computers from being bugged down and annoyed to yell with Norton, and after much investigation, I settled on NOD32 - whereas it is 'only' as good as norton at virusdetection, it takes in wilds at 100%, tested the fastest on vista too, and almost invisible, sometimes i find myself check my iconbar to see its still around...