Just Sittin' Here

I'm just sitting here, and decided that writing a new blog post would be more productive than "facebook stalking" for hours on end. But facebook stalking isn't stalking persay- they posted stuff and let you see it, so really its not invasive at all.

Today was a good day, and it ends with Burn Notice and Royal Pains, so good... it makes me happy. I went to the pool, and then went and hung out with Evan- and got into trouble for going even though I did give a heads up on where i was going, and then came home to chill in the house in my pjs were i came to the realization: laptops have crummy sound systems.

For an audiophile like me that's big. I'm going to spend the moneys to get my music on the Mini to sound the way it should. Which leads me to my rant, **[WARNING]** this rant may contain ridiculous hilarity at the manufacturer's expense and be just horribly mean in general.

The Mini is wonderful it has battery life I would expect of even larger laptops, and can keep up with all of the load intensive applications that I use everyday. It lasts a little more than 2 hours from a full charge and can last that whole time even while running Virtual Dj and Firefox - running Facebook and youTube. It does everything and more than I would want. It holds a LOT of music and I love that. But i really question HP's decision to put the headphone and microphone port together! Really together?! It creates a lot of problems because you can't just use a typical pair of headphones and listen to your music without getting all kinds of feedback and Horrible sound quality. I mean perhaps if I owned an iPhone I would already have the 4 connector mic/headphone for the Mini and would be listening to music just fine, but I don't have one! My question is what was HP thinking??! As a manufacturer you limit the use of a necessary component on your product by narrowing the accessories you can use and then all the support you offer is "well buy an iPhone accessory"! So I am going to have to purchase a $20 dollar breakout cable that takes the combined port and breaks it into two separate jacks: the Microphone Jack and the standard Stereo Headphone Jack. But why couldn't the company just have placed two jacks or provided you a cable which fit the industry standard. WHY WHY WHY do you decide to be essentially for all intensive purposes proprietary and then not include the necessary cable to let your users use their own standard headphones and microphone. So it has prompted me to buy the cable from ShowMeCables.com the awesome cable looks like it will work out super awesomely, but grr why not include the necessary cable? But in addition to that it has gotten me into wanting to purchase this pair of headphones that I think I have wanted since 8th grade and never got the time or money to do so, and with an $80 dollar price tag I remember why. They are really cool but it begs the question: "Are they big enough?"

Overall I find that I really enjoy the Mini, right off the bat it has lots of storage space, mine has 55GB which is a lot for a netbook class computer. And as a netbook it is amazing, and the only thing it would ever need would be maybe an external hard drive, but that would be for super crazy people like me who just have to have all of their music with them everywhere.
--End of Rant--

I suppose now would be a good time to try and go to sleep, though it means I have to miss watching Royal Pains, but I guess that is one of the perks of Tivo I can watch it sometime tomorrow.