Recently my friend’s geeky little brother asked me to lend him the Intel Core i7 965 Extreme processor I have in the office so that he can take his gaming a step further. I declined mainly because it’s not mine and the fella needs to study!

He asked me this because he’s been seeing me carrying my netbook with my work stuff in it.  He figures that since my work is in the netbook, the processor is vacant. Cunning little bastard!

Anyway, he then asks me why do I want to do my work on a tiny netbook instead of the huge 24 inch screen in the office. I told him that everything I need is inside this tiny netbook.  I only need a computer to write stuff and surf the internet.  The Intel Atom processor with the 10 inch screen and the large-ish keyboard that my Joybook Lite has is good enough for all the stuff I do. 

My BenQ Joybook Lite.
 

He then said, “The speed of the Core i7 processor is so much faster than the Intel Atom processor, it doesn’t matter to you meh?”

I told him it matters, it’s just that I use my computers for work and I don’t really play a lot of games.  A little (in this case, a HUGE) speed bump is always welcomed, but it’s what inside my netbook that counts. 

All my work related stuff, from articles, to PDFs of the magazine, up until my email is stored inside my netbook.  I need all these files to do my work.  It’ll be a hassle to transfer everything from my netbook to the desktop at work, not to mention I’ll loose the portability of the netbook.

He then told me, “That’s what secretaries are for! Tell your secretary to transfer for you lah!”

He is 13 years old and he assembled his computer without my friend’s help.  He gave a list of hardware to my friend and asks him to buy according to the list as my friend promised to buy him a computer for his straight A results in UPSR.  The list was very detail from the model specs like Core i7 920 down to the brand names like Kingston or Western Digital! I was thinking of which bus to take to go home and he is here spec-ing computers!

He may look like a 13 year old but the stuff going round in his head is what matters the most!  Secretaries, how the hell did he get that idea? Kids these days I tell you…