Slashdot Comment: Architecture Astronauts

I don’t think this guy ever worked with any software engineer with any significant amount of experience. Or maybe he just works with people that suck as software engineer.

The typical evolution towards wisdom in Software Engineering goes like this (simplified):

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Pictures of My New Acer 1410 Notebook

Picked up this awesome laptop/netbook hybrid called the Acer 1410 for $450 shipped and it arrived today. (Called the Acer 1810 in Europe.) Here’s some pictures:

Acer 1410 - frontAcer 1410 - topAcer 1410 - sideAcer 1410 - box

It’s really thin and light for a laptop but more powerful than the average netbook (not to mention a full-size keyboard). It pack a Core 2 Solo (Penryn) processor rather than the typical Atom and has the new Intel integrated graphics with HDMI output!

I’ve pasted the exact specs below if your interested in that. What I’m happy for is that this will be a joy to bring to around in comparison to my heavy 15.4″ MacBook Pro, even if I don’t get to use Snow Leopard on it.
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