Dell, in yet another attempt to pass off someone else's innovation as their own, has launched a new line of subnotebook computers with the monikor adamo.

OK, before you Windows PC geeks get revved up to call me a Kool-Aid drinking, Apple Nazi, who is content to pay twice as much for a computer only because I am a faithful follower of Steve Jobs, I've got one word for you.

I want a netbook. They are all the rage right now for students, professionals and anyone else who needs a very portable computer. Most of the major computer manufacturers are making a netbook model, and they are all similarly speced, priced and reviewed.

I know just about everyone out there is familiar with the phrase, "going green". It has been referenced to so many times that Webster's dictionary doesn't recognize green as a crayola color anymore...In fact I have heard it so much lately that the term--green--pains me. But what pains me more is my pocketbook, and how all the electronic companies are causing us to use tons of electricity. Here is the test I put forth to readers out there...wait until it gets dark (like now) and turn off all the lights in your house. How dark is it?

If I had a dollar for every time someone has come to me complaining that their computer is "sooooo slow," I would be a rich man. This complaint always comes from a person who has a Windows-based PC I might add, as opposed to an Apple Macintosh.