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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Laptops can generally match desktop computers these days in terms of performance, unless you're looking for a high end game machine. Laptops are more expensive, mind you, but I love being able to take my laptop to a Starbucks and write or do work. |
Yeah man....can't beat being seen there with a computer....it's just so.....cool. Can't get coffee at home either, and sure as heck can't concentrate on work in a quiet, comfortable environment...gotta have the noisy, crowded, cold starbucks, man...
Bottom line....no one sees me at home.
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May I suggest you get a laptop and type away in a nice, quiet tabang? You might meet some interesting ajosshis.  |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Why not consider buying a used high-end or new low-end laptop? If you're not sure how long you will be in Korea, go with something that's relatively cheap and will have some resale value when & if you decide to leave.
For me, the laptop is the way to go for many unique situations, and I actually don't mind using it as my main system, either.
I have both desktop & laptop. I bought the laptop purely for bringing along to meetings with clients and for use when I'm overseas. I expected I'd hate the laptop (and initially did) for all the standard reasons (screen size, cramped awkward feel, high price, etc.). But I have come to prefer using the laptop now. I'm wireless at home & at the office, so I just set it anywhere I feel like working or surfing. Could be on my bed, the coffee table, in the den, even outside in the garden when the weather's nice.
Where only a laptop will do for me:
1. Meetings with clients
2. Overseas trips
3. Working at coffee shops (don't do it much, but it's fun sometimes)
4. Home theatre PC (an individual quirk, but it is handy)
I don't play computer games or do anything seriously memory- or storage-taxing, so I'm never wishing my laptop were more robust than it is. I probably fire up the old desktops less than once a week anymore, usually just to burn some CDs/DVDs or update photo albums. I wish they were invisible or just didn't exist. They're ugly, fat, stationary, offensive to look at, and they take up valuable space. Damn them to hell. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
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Laptops can generally match desktop computers these days in terms of performance, unless you're looking for a high end game machine. Laptops are more expensive, mind you, but I love being able to take my laptop to a Starbucks and write or do work. |
Yeah man....can't beat being seen there with a computer....it's just so.....cool. Can't get coffee at home either, and sure as heck can't concentrate on work in a quiet, comfortable environment...gotta have the noisy, crowded, cold starbucks, man...
Bottom line....no one sees me at home.
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As a writer, I do some of my best work in Starbucks. I like that dynamic tension. I don't need quiet to concentrate. I like the buzz around me. It takes my ideas in interesting directions. It's a personal choice but it's something I enjoy. |
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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: |
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First I'd direct you to my sticky post on this subject:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=32089
Laptops can generally match desktop computers these days in terms of performance, unless you're looking for a high end game machine. Laptops are more expensive, mind you, but I love being able to take my laptop to a Starbucks and write or do work. |
Why do you want Starbucks coffee? The java is tastier at Coffee Bean. And why don't you read a newspaper or look at girls instead of working on your laptop. Besides the battery will probably explode if your vente frappacino spills on it. I bought a nice Acer laptop in Bangkok for 800000 won. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:59 am Post subject: |
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I was just pulling your leg mate!  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Khunopie wrote: |
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First I'd direct you to my sticky post on this subject:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=32089
Laptops can generally match desktop computers these days in terms of performance, unless you're looking for a high end game machine. Laptops are more expensive, mind you, but I love being able to take my laptop to a Starbucks and write or do work. |
Why do you want Starbucks coffee? The java is tastier at Coffee Bean. And why don't you read a newspaper or look at girls instead of working on your laptop. Besides the battery will probably explode if your vente frappacino spills on it. I bought a nice Acer laptop in Bangkok for 800000 won. |
I lived in Seattle so I'm loyal to Starbucks. Coffee Bean is a nice back up. I usually read the IHT with my first coffee, have a second coffee, and then pull out my laptop and do work. I don't look at girls. I look at women sometimes, but only in a subtle way. |
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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Khunopie wrote: |
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First I'd direct you to my sticky post on this subject:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=32089
Laptops can generally match desktop computers these days in terms of performance, unless you're looking for a high end game machine. Laptops are more expensive, mind you, but I love being able to take my laptop to a Starbucks and write or do work. |
Why do you want Starbucks coffee? The java is tastier at Coffee Bean. And why don't you read a newspaper or look at girls instead of working on your laptop. Besides the battery will probably explode if your vente frappacino spills on it. I bought a nice Acer laptop in Bangkok for 800000 won. |
I lived in Seattle so I'm loyal to Starbucks. Coffee Bean is a nice back up. I usually read the IHT with my first coffee, have a second coffee, and then pull out my laptop and do work. I don't look at girls. I look at women sometimes, but only in a subtle way. |
I lived in Vancouver. Man I miss the free refills at Seattles Best in Post Alley or Tully's. Is it the bean or the water?... just way better coffee than you get here. Walking around with 40 ozs under your belt. Just cut a few eye holes in your paper and look at some girls. Come on, I dare you. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Since we have drifted seriously off topic (of course, computer talk and Seattle in the same thread may not qualify as off topic), before Torrefazione Italia was bought out and went corporate (now has the same parent company as Seattle's Best) it was by far the best coffee in the city. I don't know how it is now, but I really don't care for Seattle's Best, it has always tasted a bit burnt to me.
I am now hooked on Vietnamese coffee, Weasel or Arabica, or that other stuff that is roasted in butter. I brought back 3.5 kilo this week. Anyone want to come set up their lap top in my (coffee) house? At $5 a kilo, I could turn a nice profit, and get advice on laptops! |
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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Since we have drifted seriously off topic (of course, computer talk and Seattle in the same thread may not qualify as off topic), before Torrefazione Italia was bought out and went corporate (now has the same parent company as Seattle's Best) it was by far the best coffee in the city. I don't know how it is now, but I really don't care for Seattle's Best, it has always tasted a bit burnt to me.
I am now hooked on Vietnamese coffee, Weasel or Arabica, or that other stuff that is roasted in butter. I brought back 3.5 kilo this week. Anyone want to come set up their lap top in my (coffee) house? At $5 a kilo, I could turn a nice profit, and get advice on laptops! |
mmmmmmmm.....roasted butter coffee......is it true that Vietnamese coffee is 3% ox dung? back on topic... if you really want to look like a hero at the cafe check out the Ferrari Acer. Just remember to wear your cape. http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr3000.htm |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| mmmmmmmm.....roasted butter coffee......is it true that Vietnamese coffee is 3% ox dung? back on topic... if you really want to look like a hero at the cafe check out the Ferrari Acer. Just remember to wear your cape. http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr3000.htm |
Maybe- added flavor and protein.  The weasel coffee is supposed to be stuff that weasels eat and then shit out, really. The acids in the digestive track are supposed to age it just right. 
http://www.xmas-shopping.net/fb/Weasel-Coffee.html
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| This amazing coffee is so rare and so astonishing, even Gareth Hunt would be shaking his beans in disbelief! Why? Well, as the name sort of (well, it doesn't really) suggests, Weasel coffee has been eaten and regurgitated by rare Vietnamese weasels! Honestly! As you can imagine, the weasels' gastric goings-on radically alter the taste of the coffee and the result is a stronger, smoother, heady flavoured coffee that will appeal to serious connoisseurs of the mighty bean. Once 'evacuated' by the bean-loving fur balls, the coffee is collected by eagle-eyed villagers, who then market the stuff directly to the manufacturers. |
All I care is that it is damned good! |
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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| mmmmmmmm.....roasted butter coffee......is it true that Vietnamese coffee is 3% ox dung? back on topic... if you really want to look like a hero at the cafe check out the Ferrari Acer. Just remember to wear your cape. http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/fr3000.htm |
Maybe- added flavor and protein. The weasel coffee is supposed to be stuff that weasels eat and then *beep* out, really. The acids in the digestive track are supposed to age it just right.
http://www.xmas-shopping.net/fb/Weasel-Coffee.html
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| This amazing coffee is so rare and so astonishing, even Gareth Hunt would be shaking his beans in disbelief! Why? Well, as the name sort of (well, it doesn't really) suggests, Weasel coffee has been eaten and regurgitated by rare Vietnamese weasels! Honestly! As you can imagine, the weasels' gastric goings-on radically alter the taste of the coffee and the result is a stronger, smoother, heady flavoured coffee that will appeal to serious connoisseurs of the mighty bean. Once 'evacuated' by the bean-loving fur balls, the coffee is collected by eagle-eyed villagers, who then market the stuff directly to the manufacturers. |
All I care is that it is damned good! |
I could go for a cup of that shhitt. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Ummm, Yum. Warm, dark brown and fragrant. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| desktops deal with spilled coffee far better than laptops... surely all the reason you need really... |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| I talk about this with a friend of mine all the time. I'll get a laptop eventually but only as a adjunct to my desktop. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:16 am Post subject: |
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I lived in Vancouver. Man I miss the free refills at Seattles Best in Post Alley or Tully's. Is it the bean or the water?... just way better coffee than you get here. Walking around with 40 ozs under your belt. Just cut a few eye holes in your paper and look at some girls. Come on, I dare you. |
There were a couple Tullys (Seattle's "third way" coffee chain) for a brief time in Seoul. But I think they were all taken over by the Tea Leaf & Coffee Bean chain. I did enjoy Tullys for its comfy chairs and fireplaces. There were a few SBCs in Seoul too, but most were closed after SBC was bought out by Starbucks. There might still be one SBC near the city hall station, although it's been several months since I've been there. |
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