{"id":1672,"date":"2010-02-03T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/rather-umid\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:26:00","slug":"rather-umid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/rather-umid.html","title":{"rendered":"Rather Umid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px! important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002QWEK7E\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/span>I took a trip to Best Buy yesterday to look at netbooks and ebook readers. The Sony ereader they had was not functioning \u2013 not a great advertisement for the device. But I was impressed by how much smaller netbooks have become than they were even the last time I looked at them.<\/div>\n<p>Browsing online, I came across some that are even smaller than the ones on display at the store. The <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sony-VPC-W121AX-T-10-1-Inch-Netbook\/dp\/B002PHM0T0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sony VAIO<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px! important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002PHM0T0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/span> for instance. But the smallest there is, I believe, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamism.com\/umid_bz.shtml?APC=P4700\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Umid mbook<\/a>. I had never even heard of them before, but they seem to offer what many of us have long dreamed of: a full-fledged computer that fits in one\u2019s pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone ever come across these before? I\u2019m sure they have advantages and disadvantages to them (especially if one has to get used to typing with one\u2019s thumbs \u2013 but it may be possible, if not always convenient, to type in the conventional fashion on the mbook\u2019s tiny keyboard). But they certainly seem worth mentioning here and talking about, given our recent discussions about ideal devices. It may not be ideal, but it certainly seems to represent an interesting step in a certain direction!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2910644344090845046?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a trip to Best Buy yesterday to look at netbooks and ebook readers. The Sony ereader they had was not functioning \u2013 not a great advertisement for the device. But I was impressed by how much smaller netbooks have become than they were even the last time I looked at them. 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