Re: USB microscopes for very small SMT

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7Zc%k.7873$as4.1969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When Howard here in the NG mentioned the Samsung NC-10 and I saw it gets >6h, like my old Compaq Contura used to, I honored that laptop performance with an order.

I'm told that the main reason those netbooks have a 1024x600 LCD is that -- unlike the older HP Mini 2133 -- Microsoft will only sell XP for "low end" machines that have no higher resolution nor more than 60? GB of storage and 1GB of RAM; everything with better specs has to run Vista.

@#$#@$%#$%


Guess Samsung found a back road then because the HD on there is 160GB. Resolution probably has to do with the form factor. I am not too thrilled about the 600 vertical pixels either because it might mean I can't easily run Linux in VirtualBox on there. Oh well, can't help it, the netbooks are pretty much all like that.


(This is also the reason that most manufacturers advertise their Atom CPU-based netbooks as being available with "up to 1GB of RAM" even though in general they'll all happily accept a 2GB DIMM -- the maximum the hardware supports.)


I found 1GB under XP to be plenty for the typical EE-tasks on the road.


I'd venture to say that >50% of the knowledge I use in my practice is from non-academic sources. App notes, Internet, ARRL books and such.

You know how much we encourage all of you and Jim and John to write books. :-)


When we retire :-)

But seriously, there won't be much of an audience. I can't cater much to folks that run a uC to perform the job of a one-shot and stuff like that, and somehow that seems to become the majority these days. Those guys won't buy the book because it'll mostly contain <gasp> non-digital stuff.

So maybe it'll be a web site and self-publication, free to the public. There comes a point where one has to give back to society. And still, this will pale compared to what volunteers at Hospice do. We were at their yearly memorial event yesterday and it amazed me what they do.

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Regards, Joerg

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