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Notebooks, subnotebooks, tablets, webooks, netbooks, tramps and thieves?

citizenkane

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So

Today, I encountered someone who asked for a netbook. Then to be informed they would need a netbook with a 17" LCD screen. I informed them it was a notebook. His response:

"But it's a netbook".

*facepalm*

Then it occured to me, actually, apart from the technology, screen, keyboard, mouse, battery life and weight. t's just the same. OH WAIT.. that's pretty much all that counts.

One of the things I really dont like is when people try to make a thing something that it's not. At the end of the day, a netbook is designed to be small, have a small screen. A notebook is designed to have a medium ish screen and be portable. To blur the lines between these is to blur the very fabric of what makes something a thing.

So to clarify:

Notebook: Desktop replacement, usually lowish in capability unless you go for more expensive version

Subnotebook: slightly smaller than a notebook, lighter etc.

tablet: You write on these.

netbook/webbook: Small, useful for the train.

tramps: homless person who travels from place to place

thieves: people who take what isnt theres, usually by force.

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Ashoka the Great
One of the things I really dont like is when people try to make a thing something that it's not.

This is called 'making a mountain out of a molehill by giving it a fancy name'.

Let me give you an example.

Good Parking Space ---> Handicapped Parking Space

See? I just turned a handy but otherwise worthless piece of asphalt into a piece of ground that's holier than St. Peter's Basilica.

More examples....

Clown Car ---> Smart Car

Peanut Butter Sandwich ---> Chemical Weapon (according to my local school board, anyway)

(My wife came up with an example that I can't repeat here. It's a good one, though.)

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Ironfist

I would have facepalmed too. I hate people.

What annoys me more is when they think they're right and it's so obvious that they're not. They will then go home and complain about "that guy who was trying to tell me I was wrong". Fact is, they are.

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