I was checking out the mini laptops when a friend of mine from online was reporting on her new one with squeeing positivity.<\/p>\n
Now, I have a laptop.\u00a0 It’s my only computer.\u00a0 I don’t use a desktop at all, and don’t really need one.\u00a0\u00a0 But the idea of a lighter, more portable laptop sounds good to me and I’ve been thinking about a mini laptop for my next computer.<\/p>\n
There are those who would say, “What about computing power?”<\/p>\n
What about it?\u00a0 There are mini laptops that have as much as my present laptop does.\u00a0 That’s not my complaint about the laptop I have.\u00a0 I use a low-end Inpiron.\u00a0 Lousy battery power and a propensity for overheating so bad I have to use a notebook cooler if I use the machine for any length of time.\u00a0 Also, I figured that 40GB would be PLENTY of disc space.\u00a0 (Not for my music collection, it’s not!)\u00a0\u00a0 There are mini laptops with much larger hard drives than mine.<\/p>\n
I don’t play interactive online games.\u00a0 The most complex tasks I do on a laptop mostly involve text.\u00a0 I could almost do my job on a smartphone,\u00a0 though would hate to have to.\u00a0 The smartphone versions of Office do have irritating limitations.\u00a0 I do sometimes watch movies on my laptop and have a pretty decent collection of Doctor Who on my external hard drive.<\/p>\n
What I actually use <\/em>a computer for is to write, bid on jobs and do research.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I also travel as much as I can manage.\u00a0 Something I can slip into a purse, feel comfortable opening on an airplane that has lots of battery power and won’t overheat sounds like bliss to me!\u00a0 Firefox with a lot of tabs open is a far worse resource drain than any actual program I run to do Real Work.\u00a0\u00a0 I was looking at the Asus EEE 1000HD recently. (And by the way, Mom, if you’re reading this, you might wanna check it out. The screen and keyboard are small, but this has about the same power as my machine, is a lot cheaper!)<\/p>\n I’m not buying one right away, mind.\u00a0 For all its limitations my present laptop is plenty useful for what I do and there’s no need to blow money away on a Nifty Gadget.\u00a0 But when I need to replace this one?\u00a0 Yep, I might consider going small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was checking out the mini laptops when a friend of mine from online was reporting on her new one with squeeing positivity. Now, I have a laptop.\u00a0 It’s my only computer.\u00a0 I don’t use a desktop at all, and don’t really need one.\u00a0\u00a0 But the idea of a lighter, more portable laptop sounds good … <\/p>\n