Last Sunday, I attended TWTRCON SF 09 in San Francisco, the first conference focused on Twitter. It was a long day. But I'm happy to report the Samsung N120 netbook I took lasted longer than I did.
Though power plugs were available to attendees in the Hotel Nikko conference room, I decided to push the netbook's battery as long as possible. Despite having Wi-Fi wireless networking on, the screen's brightness jacked all the way up, and frequent hard drive saves, the N120's 6-cell battery went for about 5 hours before I received a warning that only 10% of the battery's juice was left. Add that to what's probably the best netbook keyboard yet, and we have a winner, ladies and gentlemen.
My next stress test will be to play a video downloaded from iTunes. Video is a weak spot for many, but not all, netbooks. So far, the netbook that's performed the best in my video tests is the Asus Eee PC 1000HE.
As for the Twitter conference? Lots of interesting stuff. But I can't get the words of one analyst out of my mind: "Three years from now," he said during an on-stage panel discussion, "we'll laugh at ourselves for attending a Twitter conference."
Glad to hear the Samsung netbook performed so admirably, but I'd still be hard-pressed to renounce my Acer netbook! More importantly, I'm curious as to what was discussed at TWTRCON--I can imagine everyone sitting in a large conference hall so busy "tweeting" one another on their cell phones that not a word was spoken!
Posted by: chuck | June 03, 2009 at 07:08 AM