Research for laptop

The other day I went looking at BestBuy at their Netbooks. I was interested in their keyboard sizes. And during this I found out that my long fingers don't work well with many of the smaller ones (Eee PCs) particularly the Netbooks with screen sizes under 10".

I've also been scouring the Internet for a platform to use as my basis; I've looked at many embeded system boards. And have found that I'm not sure on which to get/use. I'd like to use one based upon AMD CPUs, particulary the Geode.

Crazy Idea (aka Laptop)

I had a crazy idea the other day. Build myself a laptop, it couldn't be that hard, could it? I decided to go semi-embedded, a small LCD screen, CF flash storage and a huge USB for more storage. Sounded quite easy until I started trying to figure out how to use a battery to power the device.

I'll have to write more on this crazy idea when I start working on this more. Until then I'll be trying to figure out exactly what components I want and how to jam the together.

Catch up

So I was busy; blame the monkeys. I've recently decided to catch up on the whole social networking "thing." Facebook and del.icio.us; not a bad way to start, oh and starting my blog again.
Now all that I've got to do is find a way to keep up with some straggling family members that are using mysapce (god I hate that site).

All for catching up.