{"id":942,"date":"2011-02-15T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2011-02-15T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:08:17","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my recent absolute necessities was a “nettop<\/a>” computer.\u00a0 These little things are pretty cool.\u00a0 They are very small PC’s, and most newer models come with HDMI connections so you can plug them into your digital TV.\u00a0 I’ve been shopping them for several months, and finally decided on the Lenovo Q150<\/a>.\u00a0 I almost built one from scratch, but when you price everything out the Lenovo actually comes in cheaper.\u00a0 (When it’s on sale, which it was last week.)\u00a0 So, what can you do with this little thing?\u00a0 Well, it’s first use was to video chat with Ed & Kim<\/a> and the baby.\u00a0 I might get a nicer webcam for it someday, but the one I have did OK for the time being.\u00a0 Since then I’ve installed Boxee<\/a> on it, so I can use it watch TV shows, Netflix movies, etc.\u00a0 Mostly I just sit on the couch and surf the Web though.\u00a0 It’s like having a 32″ monitor for your computer, it works great.\u00a0 The only downside I’ve come up with is that it sort of makes me wish I hadn’t bought my recent webserver and the PS-3, as the new toy could pretty much take the place of those two purchases.\u00a0 I do occasionally play games on the PS-3 though, so there’s a little justification there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my recent absolute necessities was a “nettop” computer.\u00a0 These little things are pretty cool.\u00a0 They are very small PC’s, and most newer models come with HDMI connections so you can plug them into your digital TV.\u00a0 I’ve been shopping them for several months, and finally decided on the Lenovo Q150.\u00a0 I almost built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}