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So I started taking a class, and on the break, I was playing with my netbook. The girl next to me asks how big the screen is, and says something about it being a convenient laptop. And what do I say? "Well technically, it's not a laptop, it's a netbook.."
How about "Yea, and it has a really long battery life." or "My parents got it for me for my birthday so I wouldn't have to lug my big laptop around while I'm on duty." But no.. I have to say "Well, technically..."

Much like me...Netbooks do not come with a built-in TMI switch.

"Thank you"

Reminds me of the one about the proverbial "Georgia Peaches"

I googled "Georgia peaches" "explanation" and "proverbial," in a couple different combinations.. and I still can't figure out what you mean by that.. Yea, now I feel REALLY stupid..

It sounds like something I would have said.

Now I feel like an Idiot for believing that all locally well known jokes are globally well known. To my surprise, apparently Not. I could only find this one below which resembles my reference above. Anyway, sorry...

One day these two fine southern belles ladies were sitting on the front porch having some iced tea just like the wholesome Georgia peaches they are supposed to be.

One of the women sticks out her hand for the other woman to see, and in her long southern drawl says "Look at this ring my husband gave me. Isn't it nice?"

To which the other woman replies, "Oh yes that's nice, that's real nice."

The first woman then says , "And just last month he took me on one of them there Caribbean cruises."

The second woman again replies, "Oh that's nice, that's real nice."

"Well sweetheart doesn't your husband ever buy you nice things or send you nice places?"

"Oh", the second woman responds, "When we first got married he did send me to etiquette school."

"Why'd he do that?" the first woman asks.

To which the second fine southern woman replies, "Well you see, before, when someone told me about the jewelry their husband gave them, or the trips he sent her on, I would have just said “I don't give a f**k”, but now I say that's nice, that's real nice."

Same here. Which annoys people and they're always like: yah...we don't care.


E.g. a discussion about artificial sweeteners:
Girl: Oh yeah I heard they're really bad for you, what were they called again? sachariso.something?
Me: It's saccharine and there's also Acesulfaam-K, aspartame etc.]
Girl: yeah... so anyway....[insert another topic]

LOL.. Hmm.. I wonder if I could find an etiquette school.
I don't think it's so much that normal people wouldn't have known what you meant as that I didn't know what you meant. Many people comment that my knowledge of pop culture has very odd gaps. While I certainly can't say for certain what other people know, chances are in this case, it was me and not you that was the problem in the communication. Not to mention that my profile does list a southern state, and while it's not exactly the deep south, locals are probably better versed in southern culture than someone native to Philadelphia would be. I just moved here last winter.



Yea.. well I was kinda trying to make a joke 'cause I find the whole netbook/laptop distinction kinda funny. (Btw.. my spellchecker isn't recognizing "netbook" as a word.) I think that normal human being don't really find that humorous. I found this really funny chart comparing them.. can't seem to re-locate it, though.
I'd 1-up you on that artificial sweetener speech and start babbling about aspartame being a dimer of phenylalanine and aspartic acid..

phenylalaline, one of my favourite words
I first noticed it written on a packet of breath fresheners (those weird paper thin mint thnig that were all the rage some time ago) when I was 8^_-

What is a netbook and why is it not appropriate to mention that it's not a laptop?

A netbook is almost like an anti notebook! It has a goal of PORTABILITY and CONNECTIVITY and sacrifices almost EVERYTHING to that effect.

They have NO CDROM, FLOPPY, EXPANSION PORT, and they have a SMALLER SCREEN, SMALLER KEYBOARD, LIGHTER SYSTEM and probably a SLOWER CPU.

By doing this, they typically weigh 1/2 the average weight, are half the average thickness, 2/3 the height and often can run twice as long.

It is not appropriate to get too technical or correct people. That is part of the AS problem.

A netbook is like a laptop but it's smaller and cheaper and uses less power, so you wouldn't use one for gaming or for anything graphics-intensive, more for browsing the web and stuff; hence "netbook." Usually they have an Intel Atom processor (although I think Via is coming out with a new processor that's supposed to go into netbooks,) a screen about 10" or less (mine is 10.2") and no optical drive. The Atom processors use relatively little power, so they battery life is pretty good. (my 6-cell battery runs for about 6 hours.) Of course, part of the reason it uses less power is that it's slower. Most are 1.6 Ghz single-core.
Netbooks are really cool so long as you're not expecting them to be laptops, 'cause you can just carry it in your purse. But some people buy them thinking that they're going to do everything that a normal computer can do, and then they get all pissed when the teeny tiny computer they got for a $200-400 doesn't do everything a $1,500 laptop would..

Aha! I found the chart!

I wouldn't mind being told that it's a netbook and not a laptop, unless it was pretty obvious and I should've known, in which case I'd be the one "at fault"... I don't think that puts a hamper on a new acquaintanceship...

You're not supposed to correct people you've just met on technical stuff, though, it's rude. A lot of people just don't know the difference at all, though. Apparently some people get pissed that a $300 computer that fits in your purse isn't a high-end graphics machine.. It's not like 1.6 Ghz is that slow, and I almost never use the optical drive in my normal computer. I think the keyboard on mine is like 92% of full-size, so the difference isn't really that bad. (it dosn't have the side number panel, of course, just the main part.) The facial recognition software is quite good too.
They rarely come with Vista, but that's a bonus as I consider Vista to be a virus anyways.

WOW, your's is SLOW! Mine is 1.66Ghz! It has an Atom 280 That is almost 6% faster than yours! Just kidding. But WOW, you feel about vista just like I do!

Greentea,

We aren't SUPPOSED to understand "social graces"

Also Atom runs in-order without superscalar. So clock for clock, they are a lot slower than normal notebook CPU.