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fail.

i thought at one point the laptop would also make coffee, since they added in the design pretty much everything that came through their mind

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I'd settle for a laptop that tells my coffeepot to make coffee.

/me smells a good idea for a network-enabled coffee maker, with web-based configuration of scheduled brewing, plus REST API for controlling the coffee maker via other applications....

grin

I guess all you need is an X10 controller or somethingorother. Too bad I couldn't get it to actually change the filter and stuff.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Coffee.html

What do you expect? Ask people for "perfect" and they'll give you "impossible." If you want something that's realistically perfect, chances are one of the leading laptops today nearly matches what you want.

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