Eos 7d Black Friday
Eos 7d Black Friday

It is $ 600 for a netbook too "move these days? Apparently yes. I tested the SecurePC of 01com.com and for a good series, the price is a Given cheap competition. The idea behind the SecurePC is ingenious: to create a scaled down version of Windows XP that can connect to the Web and else. You do not have access to local storage, so your PC can not infect malicious Web sites or emails. You can not download software. If you live on the Internet, you can run – the habit of Flash and Java plug-ins supplied with the machine. Otherwise, forget it. The laptop runs on an Intel Atom, it is quiet and compact. The screen is bright, but will not be rewarded for the size – is a diagonal of 10 inches and can run a resolution of 1280×960 video external monitor because of its strange shape, I guess. And it comes with a hard drive with solid state so it is an impulse and less heat to worry.

I loved the design and feel of the machine case hard plastic and how it starts almost instantly – it takes more time to find your wireless network is to raise the overall system. The keyboard is a bit tight for me, in particular, the comma and period keys are a little deformed together. And it comes with three USB ports, although I'm not sure what you can connect to them as an external mouse. If you try to connect a flash drive does not put all files. Consistency SecurePC with 3G USB modems to broadband, but I have not tried everything. You can access network shares via cable or wireless interfaces, but again, not sure what was going to do with files when you see them, at least you could run a session of self-execution virtual machine through the network. For an idea to minimize, namely the operating system, rather sparse open the Control configuration. Not much you can do, which I think is good if you go to this team grandmother.

The disk storage is limited, and I had to play a few games to adjust the virtual memory configuration would also allow enough space for temporary files: InTouch could spend more time to adjust some parameters of these setings. Another disadvantage is that you can not upgrade your operating system Microsoft when the inevitable problems and should wait for InTouch to launch a new image from the bowels of the machine. If you're paranoid does can live without all applications – Other than IE – it is worth a look. It could be the perfect cooking equipment, or a second machine do a lot of web browsing or email. The only real problem I have is the price. For $ 350 you can get a Dell, Acer, HP Mini that has a 10-inch display and a full version of Windows and large hard drives, and the price of the PC that I have a laptop in their concentration with a screen 15 inches. To complicate matters further, Radio Shack sells Netbook at $ 99, plus the cost of a plan for wireless broadband 3G AT & T for $ 60 per month for a two-year contract.

David Strom is a noted speaker, author, podcaster and consultant who has written two books and thousands of magazine articles for dozens of IT publications such as Computerworld, eWeek, Baseline Magazine, Information Week and Information Security magazine. His blog can be found at http://strominator.com, and he can be reached at david@strom.com.