Netbook
Posted By matt on January 28, 2009
So, I broke down and bought a netbook. Specifically, a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. In the end, for this use case, price wins over build quality, so I went with the absolute cheapest one I could find, at $230. (Okay, not quite true – I opted for the extra 512MB of RAM at $240).
The logic here is that I've always bought laptops as desktop replacement systems – large screens, decent horsepower, etc. This is all well and good, and indeed is very useful for doing real work… but sometimes I just want something small and portable that I can take on the road in order to do things like just read email and surf the web. Thing iPod touch only a little bigger and with a proper keyboard. Still, at 1/4 the weight of my desktop, and with more battery live but with a considerably smaller size, it is still quote a bit smaller.
We'll see how well this works.
Oh, and there was an article about netbooks today. Interesting read.
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