The Shures Network

It’s Mini-Me!

My daughter received a cute new little netbook for Christmas. It has surprising performance for an inexpensive price. It’s the perfect size for her. Plus for those bussines trips when I’m flying, Dad gets to borrow it. Here it is sitting on my mammoth 17″ 1920×1200 honker.

The Specs:
1.6GHz Processor Intel® Atom™ N270
2GB Memory DDR2 667MHz
120GB SATA Hard Drive
10.1” 1024×600 LCD
HD Audio w/ Stereo Speakers
10/100 LAN
802.11b/g Wireless
Built-in 1.3 Megapixel Webcam
SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro Memory Card Reader
USB2.0 Port X 3
2.8 lbs. 10.2″ X 7.1″ and 0.7″ thin

Voted one of the 10 hottest tech products of 2008, these are selling like crazy. The stores sold out for Christmas.

Sure anyone these days can have a Wi-Fi hotspot in their house, I like the long hauls; the farther the better. Watching packets fly miles through the air at broadband speeds is such a rush. I also like climbing on roofs, towers, and buildings with no safety net. But I’m getting a little too old for that.

Pictures of past wireless networking projects have been published in the photo gallery.

I retired my old piece of crap. I got my new cell phone this week. The Sprint plan pricing was phenomenal. I finally made the upgrade to a taco.

$37.00 a month including the taxes for:

500 Anytime Minutes
Nationwide Long Distance
America Roaming
Unlimited Sprint & Nextel Mobile to Mobile
Free Nights 7:00pm to 7:00am
Free Weekends
Caller ID
Call Waiting
3-Way Calling
Voicemail
Unlimted High-Speed Internet Access

My $250.00 Treo 700p includes:

312 MHz PXA270 Intel XScale processor
128 MB of (NVFS) chip Internal Memory
2GB SD/MMC Memory Expansion Card
2″ x 2″ / 320 x 320 TFT Touch-Screen Display
65,000 Colors
1.3 Megapixel Digital Camera
Bluetooth Wireless v1.2
Palm OS v5.4.9

It’s a high powered PDA phone, a portable music and video entertainment device, and an email and Internet machine. It does it all with ease and style.