[BITList] The End Is Near For Netbooks

[franka]

Hugh,
I'm with you regards mobile phones I have one in the car for emergency's 
which has $50 dollars in it which lasts for a year and most years gets 
renewed at the end of each 12 months without having been used
frank

On 1/19/2011 5:58 AM, HUGH wrote:
> Colin,
> I've managed OK until now without even knowing what a netbook is.  Now 
> I know it's a wee laptop, and they are becoming extinct.  So will I 
> now rush to buy a tablet ?  Will I %&£$ !  The thing is, I dont need 
> one - I am immune to any and all statements, adverts, etc, that try to 
> convince me I should have one.  My computer does not come with me to 
> the toilet, or to anywhere else. It stays right here with the rest of 
> the furniture : TV, bed, settee, table, etc, and, when I unplug it, 
> it's dead.  I recently acquired a somewhat ancient (by modern 
> standards) mobile phone - my daughter gave me her old one.  I put £10 
> in it 2 months ago, and there's still £2 left.  Though I find it kind 
> of handy at times for text messages (I've yet to make a call on it), 
> it came to me this afternoon that people grow to feel they need 
> these things only because other people have them, ie, each has to be 
> in touch with the rest. It's self perpetuating - it's a bloody 
> addiction.  I can still remember when it was possible to survive and 
> lead a happy life without any of these portable gadgets.  That's my 
> story anyway.  Incidentally, in Stockholm I didn't see many people 
> with one stuck to their ear.
> Hugh.
>
>
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