{"id":712,"date":"2008-10-30T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2008-10-30T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:28:33","slug":"calling-all-notebook-designer-wannabes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Calling all notebook designer wannabes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have your say over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wepc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WePC.com<\/a>, a joint venture by Asus and Intel that allows users to specifiy what they&#8217;d like to see in a computer. You can also draw the thing if you&#8217;re feeling creative \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stuff is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wepc.com\/vote\/view\/dream\/876\/Nightwish\" target=\"_blank\">quite broad<\/a> in aspiration: &#8220;quality display, perfect performance, huge HDD&#8221;. I wonder how one defines &#8220;perfect performance&#8221;<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">, particularly if WIndows Vista is installed<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The site lets you balance between long battery life and a large screen, weight versus durability, performance against price and that sort of thing, so it&#8217;s impossible to, say, have one with a battery that lasts for nine hours that also has a 19-inch screen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most highly rated so far is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wepc.com\/vote\/view\/dream\/419\/Extensible_Gaming_Laptop\" target=\"_blank\">extensible gaming laptop<\/a>, which says nuts to a long battery in favour of desktop power.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to come across the one <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-11386_3-10078761-76.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" target=\"_blank\">advocating hair<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have your say over at WePC.com, a joint venture by Asus and Intel that allows users to specifiy what they&#8217;d like to see in a computer. You can also draw the thing if you&#8217;re feeling creative \ud83d\ude00 Some of the stuff is quite broad in aspiration: &#8220;quality display, perfect performance, huge HDD&#8221;. I wonder how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}