Since I’m in the mood to post a bunch of 2010 related things and this was pretty much the year of photography for me, I decided to go through my photos from this year and pick out some of my favorites. I didn’t try to narrow down to my top ten, but I did filter out the erotic shots that I’ve taken but still haven’t done anything with.
You may notice that I need to find more “models,” that’s going to be a goal for 2011, I think.
Since I normally do a year review type thing, I guess I’ll squeeze one in now while there’s still time before 2011 hits. 2010 was a very interesting year for me. There were ups and downs all over the place. I’m going to keep this one short though.
I started off the year with a pretty big bang, I got engaged…in Disney World…in Cinderella’s Castle. It was awesome. It was such a nerve-wracking experience, but I’m so excited to be planning a wedding with my amazing fiancée and knowing that we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.
2010 was the year that I ran my first half marathon and really started to become a runner instead of just being someone that likes to run. Over the course of the year, I became a much stronger runner and it became something that’s a part of me. I set new personal records for myself at every distance I ran and even became a minimalist runner and got a pair of Vibram Five Fingers.
Over the past year, I immersed myself in a new hobby. I spent hours and hours taking photos and reading about photography, I think my camera is about to hit 10,000 shots on it in the next few days. Not bad! I’m excited about my growth as a photographer and I will probably spend as much, if not more, time taking photos in 2011.
In 2010, I ended my radio show, The Playlist, which I had hosted for seven years on 90.3 The Core. It wasn’t my first show on the station, but it was one of the longest running shows ever on the station. Ending my show was the final piece to putting my life at 90.3 The Core behind me and moving on.
As I mentioned, there also downs this year. I’m going to keep negatives mostly out of this , but unfortunately 2010 wasn’t a great year for my family in the health department. I won’t go into the details, but my last remaining grandparent, my grandmother on my mother’s side, passed away after a two and a half month roller coaster ride in the hospital. That’s all I’m going to say about that, but it hasn’t been an easy month.
Lastly, 2010 was the year that I moved out of Highland Park after living there for the last five years. My fiancée and I got a wonderful townhouse in Somerset, NJ, just a few minutes from where we lived in Highland Park. After two months here, we’re very happy with it and haven’t really looked back.
So those were the major highlights of 2010. Many, many other things happened (I missed Halloween), but I said that I would try to keep this short. With less than seven hours to go in 2010, I think I’ve had a pretty full year, but I’m really looking forward to 2011. 2011 will be the year I get married and…I have no idea what else, but we’re starting it off with another trip to Disney World which will include a run in the Disney Half Marathon. Woo!
Since I’ve done it before, I figured I’d post my favorite movies of the year again. This year, generating the top 10 list was easy, but putting them in order was a little harder. There are a lot of movies I missed getting to see, but I think I saw the majority of what I wanted to. I think. And as always before I actually present the list, I will say that these were my favorite movies, not necessarily the ones that I thought were the best. Okay, here you go…
Thanks to the crazy snow from Sunday, I don’t think I’ll be able to get another run in outside before we leave for Disney. The main roads still aren’t even 100% yet–some are still really bad–so most of the sidwalks are still a mess and either not cleared at all or not safe to run on. None of the roads are safe to run down the side of either. So with that being the case, I took a trip over to the gym today to push out four miles on the damn treadmill. However, it wasn’t as bad as normal. I went in the mid-afternoon so it was deserted and the run itself wasn’t as bad as normal. I felt more energetic than usual, probably because I hadn’t just done a full day of work, and squeezed out the 6 miles slightly faster than I would normally on the treadmill. It didn’t even feel like torture. For the last two minutes, I cranked it up to 9.5mph which I’ve never tried on a treadmill before. It wasn’t too bad.
My search for the ultimate backpack was not an easy one. I spent weeks looking at different bags online before making a decision. The biggest problems were my pickiness and wanting too much from a single bag. The bag I chose needed work as an everyday bag and be durable to last for years through all kinds of mistreatment. I wanted a bag designed to carry my camera and a couple extra lenses, but the backpack couldn’t look like camera bag, I wanted it to look like a regular backpack. The bag needed have room for a couple days’ worth of clothes and my MacBook Pro, but still not be very bulky. With a couple other minor must-haves in there, I had my work cut out for me.
Eventually, I stumbled across a small company called F-Stop that specializes in making photography bags for skiing and snowboarding. They have three different sized backpacks and after reading a ton of reviews across all the models, I decided to get the smallest one, the Loka. Even though the Loka is their smallest bag, it’s still plenty big at 37L. As far as the dimensions go, the bag is only a few inches taller than the Pakuma Akara K1 laptop bag that I’ve been carrying every day for the last few years. The Loka is actually not quite as wide and just two inches thicker. It’s taller than I was looking for, but still not bad.
The design of the bag is great both aesthetically and functionally. There are plenty of pockets and places to put things. The main compartment is very large and opens from both the top and the back of the pack. Inside the main compartment, you get to put your choice of an internal camera unit (ICU) (this where you actually put your photo gear). On top of the ICU, there is still plenty of room for a weekend’s worth of clothes or whatever else you want to carry. There is almost a standard Jansport backpack’s worth of room left there still.
A little more about the ICUs, they are removable and there are four different sizes available–depending on what sizes you have, you can even fit two in there, if you need to. I opted for the medium ICU which is more than big enough to fit my camera with any lens I have attached, two additional lenses (more, but that’s all I’ve got), a flash, and some other crap. The ICUs also make for a great way to store your equipment when it’s not in use, but I found that getting the ICU into the pack and strapped in on both sides was a little more troublesome than I thought it would be. It only takes about a minute to get the pack in and strapped, but it’s a slightly cumbersome procedure. Since I only bought a single ICU, I don’t see myself removing it too often.
As I mentioned above, the pack opens from the back and the top. When you open from the back, you get access to the contents of the ICU. While this means that access to your camera isn’t super quick (you have to take the bag off), it does mean that your camera is protected from thieves trying to pull a fast one while you’re in crowded areas. The design allows you to put your pack down in the snow and access the contents without having the part that goes against your back actually touching the snow. While this won’t matter for everyday use, this bag will be coming with me on the mountain every once in a while so this will be a nice feature.
The top flap to the bag has pockets on both sides. The outer pocket as a couple smaller pockets inside for putting things and the inner one is made of mesh. These make for a great place to put things like keys, cables, etc. The flap on the back of the bag has very tight pockets for spare batteries and memory cards, a great way to not waste space in the bag and provide extra organization. There is also padding to add comfort to your back. On either side of the pack there are mesh pockets which hold a Nalgene bottle pretty well and I usually throw my iPod in one of them for everyday use (won’t do this on the mountain). These mesh pockets can also be used with the side straps for holding a tripod. However, I’ve found that the pocket which I normally keep my Nalgene bottle in has stretched out very slightly. This may just be normal wear as the bag breaks in, but I’m going to keep an eye on it.
On the front, there’s a vertical zipper that opens up to another compartment. This one is much smaller than the main compartment, but could still be big enough to put a fair amount of stuff in, if you needed it. And finally, underneath the pack there is a pocket for storing the optional rain cover which seems to be rarely needed as the bag is pretty water resistant and designed to survive on the mountain even without the cover.
Because of some shipping problems that F-Stop has been having, it took close to a month to get my bag. This was a little disappointing as customer service kept providing what seemed to be hopeful ETAs instead of realistic ones. Still, I would not hold the shipping problems against the company as they are still very small and the time and money seems to have gone into the product instead of customer service and ironing out the kinks in their shipping process (the actual issue was in shipping from their overseas production site to their US warehouse, not in shipping to me).
So because of the shipping issues, I’ve only had the bag for about two weeks, but I’ve been using it every day. However, the bag does feel a tad big for everyday use for me since I’m not a bit guy. I like to bring a backpack to the office with me just to keep my headphones (a big pair of over the ear Sennheiser HD-280s), a handful of cables, and my camera. My fiancée makes fun of me for always bringing my camera to work, but I like having it with me in case there’s something that comes up to take photos of…like waffle day. I also sometimes bring my laptop if there are things I want to try to get done during lunch. The Loka holds all of this stuff very nicely and doesn’t feel too heavy on, even when I just wear it on one shoulder as I normally do from the car up to my cube.
One thing that I’d like to mention about carrying my laptop in the Loka is that this model does not feature a full sized laptop slot. F-Stop’s other two models, Tilopa and Satori, are designed to carry 15″-17″ notebooks in a padded slot, but this bag does not feature that. This was almost a dealbreaker for me, but there is a sleeve that fits my netbook or my Google Cr-48 (or a hydration sleeve if you want, there’s an opening for the tube). While I don’t like carrying any computer unprotected in a bag, I feel more than comfortable with either of these in the slot. The bag itself seems to provide enough protection for everyday use so as long as I don’t go throwing the thing around or have the computer in there while snowboarding. I think they’ll be fine. That being said, a 15″ laptop in its own padded sleeve will still fit in the bag. Since I don’t have a sleeve for my MacBook Pro, I haven’t gotten to try this, however, I did slip it in between the ICU and the back flap and this worked pretty well. The space there is just perfect for my MacBook Pro and because of the padding in the ICU and on the back flap, it’s pretty protected. This does block access to the ICU, but I can’t imagine any time in which the extra second it will take to pull my computer out will be much of an annoyance. I found that this was actually a pretty ideal way to carry my laptop in this bag the other day when I went home for Christmas. I wanted to bring my MacBook Pro with me so that I could work on photos as I took them, but I also wanted to bring my Cr-48 to show it to my dad. I was able to put the Cr-48 in the netbook sleeve and the MacBook Pro between the flap and the ICU. They fit wonderfully. And the straps held the weight too.
Something that’s very convenient about this bag is that it has a removable internal frame which helps the weight to be distributed properly to your hips when using the chest and waist straps. The frame also helps the bag stand up straight when you set it down. This makes it very easy to get things out of it and keeps the bag from getting dirty when you put it down.
As I mentioned, the bag is bigger than the bag I was using, but the side straps help it compress very nicely. With the ICU in, the bottom half of the bag doesn’t compress a lot, but the top can compress a ton. This helps the bag to not look monstrous when wearing with a light load.
Overall, I’m extremely happy with this bag. It’s made well and carries everything I need, whether it’s just my daily travel to and from the office or a weekend trip. I haven’t taken it out yet on the slopes, but that’s coming soon. I have nothing but high expectations for it. It’s also not too bulky and is comfortable to wear. Based on much of what I’ve read, this seems to be a lot better than 99% of camera bags out there. F-Stop bags are made by people who are both photographers and snowboarders/skiers. They are designed based on actual use by people that actually use the products and each revision takes into account user feedback. Rather than sewing straps to a padded camera case, F-Stop designed an extremely good backpack and then added a removable camera case.
The only complaint that I really have is the price, at $250 with 1 ICU included, this bag is just about the most expensive bag I looked at. However, the quality and the design make up for that a lot. One of my original most-haves for a bag was something with quick access to the camera, but after a while, I realized that I couldn’t get everything I wanted from just one bag. This was the feature that made the most sense to drop, but it also meant that I would need (okay, want) a second bag for those times when I’m out all day, but only need my camera and maybe a couple small things on me, like Disney (only one week away!) and photo scavenger hunts around NYC. For that, I decided a sling would be best. This hunt was much easier, but I’ll get into that in another post this week.
The training schedule I made a while back put me at a 14-15 mile run today. The weather didn’t want to co-operate though. As of last night, we were forecasted to get 12-18 inches of snow over the course of today and tomorrow morning. So we tried to get up early for a pre-snow run, but we struggled to get out of bed when we wanted. There was still no snow when we left the house, but our pre-snow run quickly became a during-snow run. And the weather continued to make the run more and more difficult. The wind was blowing and the ground became slippery. Vibram Five Fingers are not so great once snow hits the ground.
So today’s run was cut short because of the weather. I only ran 12 miles and they were slow, slower than my April half marathon. I started out the first 6 or 7 miles very slowly with the fiancée. Today was planned to be a ten mile run for her, the longest she’s done since the half marathon in April and definitely a big run considering the injuries that she’s been battling. She still isn’t fully back to health, but got through 9 miles today without pain…well, leg pain. She also cut her run short because of the weather and had a very slow pace overall because of the wind and the snow.
Unfortunately, the past week didn’t go according to schedule either, I only got in one treadmill run instead of the three runs I wanted to do. Oh well
It’s a Christmas miracle! I got my top 10 albums of the year list done! I kept forgetting about this and putting it off so much that I didn’t think I’d have it done by Christmas, but I buckled down and made it happen.
In years past, I’ve done bigger lists and/or had honorable mentions and all that jazz. Mostly this was fueled by hosting The Playlist, but without having a radio show to host a top albums of the year countdown on now, I had less drive to make a list that I could fill an hour (or two) with.
This was an odd year for me, I barely spent any time listening to music. Even though I still hosted the radio show up until September, I felt less connected to the music than I used to. I think this is a temporary thing, but I really found myself never listening to music at home and listening much, much less at work. I’m putting the blame on trying to do too much and having too much going on. It used to be that the biggest thing in my life was the radio station. Most of what I did was connected to that so I was surrounded by music. Before that, I ran a venue. Before that, I did little besides going to shows. So up until recently, most of my time and hobbies were music related. That’s changed a lot this year, I spend more time doing non-music related things now. It’s changed a lot for me, but I think things will even out sooner or later. I hope at least.
Because of all that, I think I missed out on a lot of music this year and even stuff that I did check out, didn’t get the time that it deserved. Making a list this year was hard, but I’m pretty happy with it.
So here it is, the albums I was most into for 2010…
Time constraints forced a treadmill run today which sucked…as usual. I got through four miles at an average pace, but had some time afterwards while the fiancée finished up so I did another half mile at a slow 6mph with the incline set to 5.5. One thing I have done pretty much none of while training has been anything strength related so I definitely felt the burn from the incline.
Classified under cool things that can happen that I wasn’t expecting would be having Google send me a free laptop, but that’s what happened last week.
How I got it
As most have heard, Google has made their own operating system called Chrome OS and they put together a pilot program to get it into the hands of people while they continue the development. To get one, you can apply for the pilot program by filling out a form and hoping for the best. They are trying to get all kinds of people in the program, but I’m not sure of the specifics of how they’re choosing people. I filled out the form almost right after it went up and was hopeful, but I figured it was a long shot especially since when I answered the question asking why I’d be a unique user, I kind of gave an honest response and said that I wouldn’t be.
I expected that to be the end of it, I hadn’t heard anything so I figured I wasn’t chosen. This is where the surprise comes in, Friday night when my fiancée and I got home from our company’s holiday party, there was a box sitting on the front step. It was addressed to me which was confusing to both of us as I wasn’t waiting on anything, all the Christmas gifts that I had ordered had come already. The box was completely unmarked and the return address didn’t help–it certainly didn’t say Google on it. I was a little afraid, to be honest. I made my fiancée face the other way just in case it was something I ordered for her and had forgotten about. As I opened the box, I actually leaned back a bit, I had a slight fear that it was going to blow up in my face. I really had no idea what it was. Had I been completely sober at the time and not still a little buzzed from the party, I may have been even more careful.
When I got the box open, there was just another box inside. This box wasn’t labeled either. There was a nice graphic on one side that gave no real indication of what was inside and a lithium-ion battery warning sticker on the other side. No other markings. I was still a bit confused so I again opened the box in front of me with extreme caution and still expecting a face full of explosion. As I opened this box, the first thing that I saw was the battery and as I pulled that out, I saw a sheet of paper and the computer itself. At this point, I knew exactly what it was, but I was in utter shock. I couldn’t believe I had been selected for the pilot program. I also couldn’t believe that Google had sent me a free computer and didn’t even send me an email to let me know I had been selected–apparently, most people did get an email though.
Even though I was tired and a bit buzzed still, I immediately powered the machine on and started playing with it. How could I not? It was neat and my fiancée quickly grabbed it from me and logged in with her account too.
Awesome.
The review
How could I not review this thing, right? So where to start? Hmm…I’ll start with the outside. If you’ve read any reviews of this thing so far, you’ll know that the aesthetics are view simple. The computer is all matte black and entirely unbranded. It looks amazing, sort of reminiscent of the black MacBook. There are no fingerprints left as you handle it. It’s wonderful. Appearance-wise, computers don’t get much nicer than this. I truly love it. One thing that you would never even think about until you’re presented with an unbranded computer is that if you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to try to open it from the wrong side. When you pick it up, it’s not immediately apparent which side the hinge is on. I’ve made this mistake a few times.
It’s a bit bigger than my Asus Eee 1101HA which makes sense since it’s a 12″ screen, but it’s comparable in weight. The machine doesn’t feel featherlight, it’s got a small bit of heft to it, but it also feels quite solid. I don’t feel like I’m going to break it…very unlike my Eee. Very nice. When you open up the lid, everything still feels pretty solid. When you close it, the top snaps down with authority and stays closed. Again, very nice. While it’s open, you’re presented with a spacious, yet simplified chiclet-style keyboard. I like the keys and this thing is a pleasure to type on–I’m actually typing this review on it. The keys feel solid under your fingers and don’t have too much travel, but there is enough to keep you from guessing if you’ve actually pressed them or not. I like typing on this thing much more than my Eee.
The most interesting part of the keyboard is the layout of the keys. Obviously, a Windows key isn’t needed so that’s gone. This frees up some room so the Ctrl and Alt keys are a bit wider. Along the top, the function keys are history and that’s okay because they don’t really have a lot of use on this machine, but they are replaced with keys for refresh, screen brightness, volume, etc. You’re not losing anything here. The caps lock key has been replaced with a search key which doesn’t bother me in the least, despite some groaning from the internet about this. The last major change to what’d you’d expect is one that bothers me though, there are no end, home, or delete keys. On my MacBook Pro, I’m used to being able to do fn-Delete for a right delete, but there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent here that I’ve found yet. Home and end can be achieved by holding down Ctrl and Alt while pressing up or down. It gets the job done, but there’s still a bit of oddball functionality loss (like being able to go to the beginning or end of a page) and annoyance here for someone who uses home and end a lot. Your average user won’t miss it, but being a software developer, I’m very used to needing to move around text quickly without the mouse. It’s become part of my everyday computer-usage. The only other negative about the keyboard is the lack of backlit keys. Though, to be fair, this isn’t really something that would be expected for this level of hardware, but it goes a long way when it’s there.
(Update: I actually took a look at the help article for all the keyboard shortcuts and the situation is much better than I originally feared. I think I’m good here…mostly.)
The trackpad is somewhat of a mixed bag. I like the feel of it under my fingers, it’s large and responsive. Not only does it feel much better than my Eee’s trackpad, but the two-finger scrolling is quick and responds well. It’s smooth instead of jerky like on the Eee. My experience here seems to be very different from most other reviews. Maybe it’s just that my expectations were for a similar experience to my Eee and not to my MacBook Pro. Anyway, you get a couple other gestures like pinch to zoom and you can do a two finger tap to right click–this doesn’t work very consistently. Unfortunately, you don’t get any three finger swipes like I’m in love with on my Mac for moving back and forward in a browser. Also, the trackpad gets very finicky when trying to select text. The best method I’ve found is to click the pad down and drag your finger while still holding it down. It works, but my hands never want to do that, they try to instead use a method more similar to what MacBooks allow–you can get away with using two fingers.
The 12″ screen is the right size and gives more resolution than a standard netbook, much nicer than the smaller screens on my most netbooks. My Eee is an 11″ model, but the extra inch makes a big difference here. Definitely worth the larger physical footprint. Additionally, it’s got a matte finish and is plenty bright. Unfortunately, that’s all I can say on the positive side for the screen. The contrast on this thing is horrible and I can’t find any adjustments for it yet. Everything feels very washed out and the vertical viewing angles are crap. There’s a very small angle that looks acceptable. Horizontal angles are quite a bit better though.
There are just a handful of ports on this thing. For what you’re going to use a cloud-only OS for, one USB port will get you by and the SD slot is nice to have, but of limited use to me since I’ll won’t be able to do any photo editing on this. Most people will be able to pop in a memory card from their camera and immediately start dumping to Picasa, Facebook, and Flickr. The machine comes with a VGA port instead of an HDMI port which is slightly disappointing. Granted, the machine doesn’t have the power to really drive HD content, but an HDMI port is a bit more useful these days than a VGA one is.
I haven’t been able to fully test the battery life yet, but it seems pretty solid. I think getting close to eight hours of life out of this thing could be a reality. The power brick is nice and small like you’d expect for a netbook so that’s nice, but I haven’t really kept it plugged in while using yet. Now that I think about it, it hasn’t seen AC power in over 48 hours and I’ve probably put four or five hours of use in since that charge. I’ve got 31% left right now. That kind of life puts the Cr-48 in the very good category. It’s more than my year and a half old MacBook Pro gets, but less than my fiancée’s 2010 MacBook and my Eee. Of course, those aren’t all fair comparisons.
Update: I forgot to mention the speakers, they’re located on the sides of the machine and get decently loud. They acceptably clear, but as would be expected, lack any bass at all.
Alright, so let’s get to the actual using it part. The Google Cr-48 is unlike using any other computer. It’s the first machine built for Google Chrome OS which attempts to make a pretty big statement in favor of computing solely in the cloud. If you think about it, most of your computer use is probably in your browser anyway and what isn’t can be moved there pretty easily.
When you turn the computer on, a cold boot takes about 15 seconds. This is the kind of thing anyone can get used to. If this is your first time using the machine, you are presented with a screen to login with your Google account. Once you put in your email and password, the computer snaps your picture and you’re off to gallivant around the internet as you please. If you use Google Chrome as your browser already and have the sync turned on, everything pulls down for you. You get your extensions, bookmarks, etc. From here on out, everything you do on the machine is in the cloud. If you use someone else’s Chrome OS machine, you’ll pick up right where you left off when you log in. When you first experience this, it’s pretty remarkable. You’ll love it.
When you close the lid, the computer almost instantly goes to sleep and when you open it back up, it’s on by the time you have the screen in position for use. You’ll love this too.
After you’re logged in, you get a Google Chrome window. That’s it. All you get is a web browser. The idea is that webapps can do everything for you. For most people, Google’s assumption (prayer, really) isn’t completely unattainable. Since Chrome OS really just lets you use a web browser, let’s talk about that. If you’re a Google Chrome (the browser) user already, you’ll feel right at home.
The browsing experience on the Cr-48 is very good. It has to be, this is all it has. Just about everything about the browsing experience is a smoother than on my Eee, but significantly slower than on my MacBook Pro or my Windows 7 desktop. There are some caveats though, flash performance leaves a bit to be desired. An Intel Atom with integrated graphics just doesn’t cut it. Low resolution videos play fine, but even 480p videos start to get a little choppy. Something that I think is a little odd is that YouTube videos don’t give you the option of 720p or 1080p. The options just don’t show. In reality, this is probably a smart move on Google’s front because I don’t think this machine would handle it very well, but therein lies the problem. Google thinks and wants the future of computing to be entirely in the cloud and media is continuing to become a bigger and bigger part of the online experience. On top of that, HD is becoming more and more important…even for video on the web. How could Google ship a machine to show off their new OS that doesn’t play HD video from their own video site? Granted, this is not a production machine–you will never be able to buy it, it’s sort of like beta hardware–, the OS is still in beta and not at v1.0 yet, and the OS is built on Linux and Adobe’s Linux support for Flash is awful. Still, to not even allow HD video is pretty crappy. This needs to get fixed before Chrome OS can be sold with production machines.
That’s all I’ve got for now, I’m still fiddling around with this thing and trying to find some hidden stuff. I haven’t tried developer mode yet, but I’ll get to that soon.
The verdict
Factoring in that this is not production hardware and this is a beta OS still, I like the Cr-48 a lot. There are some glaring flaws here, but the overall experience is very positive. I like what Google is doing here, but like many (even former Google employee and the creator of Google) have questioned, what is the long term plan for Google Chrome OS? How will it not get swallowed up by Android which offers more and could pull off what Chrome OS offers.
For a lot of people, I think this could be all they need, but it could never be a main computer for me. My music and video libraries are way too large to be moved into the cloud in the foreseeable future and without being able to play media over my network here without setting up my server to stream via the web, Chrome OS is leaving me high and dry. Additionally, I practically live and breathe Adobe Lightroom and without being able to run that, I need something else. No webapp anytime soon will be able to take over editing of RAW files. They’re just too big to to work with via the web right now. Javascript and the internet as a whole have come a long way, but not that far. Unfortunately, this not only prevents the Cr-48 from making it as my main computer, but also prevents the it from being able to replace my Eee.
For 95% of netbook users, this could do it for them, but I need my Lightroom. I’m not going to lie, Adobe Lightroom on a netbook isn’t the best experience, but it runs and with a little patience can get you by while you’re away from home. It’s nice to have a cheap computer that I don’t need to worry about yet can still run Lightroom while I’m on vacation. When I’m away, I can dump a days’ worth of photos on there and at least start tagging them and even get some of the basic editing done. If I could do that on here, my Eee would go up for sale.
The bottom line here is still a very big like. Even though I now have six computers to my name, this one will get a solid amount of use. My MacBook Pro won’t be replaced and my Eee will still come with me when I travel, but this will be nice for browsing on the couch or in bed.
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