Just got myself a netbook today. The Samsung NC1. I was in the market for a lightweight work laptop, and was looking at the likes of the Macbook Air and Sony TT. They were simply too expensive for me, and then I came across netbooks.
Having read through all the reviews of all netbooks that are out. I can safely say that I got the best one out there at the moment. The Samsung NC1 has 6 hours of battery life while I work full speed on web development work. Which is pretty good for a thing that weighs just over 1kg and it’s 1/4 of the price of the low end Macbook Air!
I did have some issues with it at first. As in - there is Windows XP HOME! edition installed… which means I don’t have IIS and no advanced security setups, but still I managed to install Apache 2.2, PHP and MySQL on here just fine and have been working out it while I’m out and about.
The other issue was the CPU wasn’t able to handle CCCP-Project’s H264 decoders and my HD anime are out of sync. Luckily found a solution for that which is to install CoreAVC’s decoder on top of CCCP-Project and disable CCCP-Project’s H264 video decoding so that it is handled by CoreAVC.
That works a charm :). CPU utilisation on this baby while watching HD is only around 50-60%.
The other thing I’ve done on here is to install NOD32, which is “supposed” to be the fastest AV software out there, and since I’m on a 1.6Ghz Atom processor, I need every last bit of juice I can get out of this baby.
It’s been working well for me so far.
With the release of Google Chrome beta for Windows and the planned beta soon after for Mac and Linux. It is obvious that a major player in the internet field has finally extended it’s claws into the browser.
Google Chrome, based on webkit, has essentially made it’s rendering speed and features the same as Safari. A lot of people are hailing about it, even newspapers for the ordinary folks.
According to techCrunch, some people thinks it can catch up to firefox’s 20% market share in 2 year time.
I’m not so sure about that. Don’t get me wrong, Google is certainly strong however, with no development tool comparable to Firebug and I certainly can’t see any easy module installation functionality at this moment.
Google Chrome will not be as successful as Firefox, Google Chrome will only be categorised the same as Opera and Safari.
The 20% marketshare that Firefox enjoys today at the end of the day is due to the developer community spreading it like fire whenever they have the chance to do so on their relative’s machines and at their workplace.
The ability to have completely customisable addons is what made Firefox. Unless other browsers do the same, they’ll always be “consumer” oriented browsers that will require enormous amount of public advertising to get any market shares.
So. I don’t doubt Google Chrome as a browser that we developers will need to add it onto our list of “supported browsers” in a year or two. But gaining the marketshare of Firefox? Maybe in 5 years time.
I’ve always debated on the issue about personal and professional blogging. It is hard for me to not simply be myself and blog in one place. However I can understand the benefit of a professional blog vs a personal blog.
Well, so I’ve decided, I’m going to make this blog more personal, and my professional blog would be established on Citisky.
Afterall, Citisky Studio has always been my professional playground.
Doesnt change anything for now though. I’ve got some big plans coming up so I’m concentrating on those efforts.
It would be cool actually to make a wordpress module (if it doesn’t already exist) so that I can manage two blogs on one interface and I can assign it to the personal or professional category and it’ll get updated accordingly.
I might look into that when I have a bit more times in my hand. Later
