Today is a writing day so in keeping with my madness I am sitting in the new Starbucks I’ve blogged about and writing my abs off. Yes, writing is a cardio exercise the way I do it. :) I decided to bring the HP 2710p with me to see if the larger screen and keyboard makes this task much easier. Boy does it, it’s very productive to have the larger 12" screen and the full keyboard for writing my heart out and it definitely plays into my current internal debate about the two laptop philosophy or not. Since the 2710p performs the job better than the Mini-Note and doesn’t weigh much more if any then perhaps I should be bringing it for writing work and not the Mini. Decisions, decisions.
I have mentioned before that this Starbucks is a brand new one near me and that it had no WiFi, paid or otherwise. I spoke with the manager about that today and since this is a brand new store T-Mobile will not put the equipment in for a hotspot which makes sense as Starbucks is switching to AT&T this year. The manager wasn’t sure why AT&T has not installed their hotspot equipment yet but they were here yesterday with some sort of measuring device scanning all of the store area for interference potential. It sounds like the new Starbucks are getting AT&T from the get-go and thus hastening the death of Starbucks’ T-Mobile hotspots.
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