now or when

Filed under General on June 2 | 4 comments


For the past few months I’ve been extremely interested in getting an ultra-portable laptop. If you have heard of them before, you aren’t alone. They pretty must sprung up near the end of last year. They are smaller than a standard laptop but bigger than a PDA. They come with a full keyboard, so they are a laptop. However, they also are really small.

For the most part, the specifications for such a device are:

  • 7-10 inch screen
  • mobile celeron or the new atom chip coming from intel (soon)
  • 1Gb memory
  • wireless options

As you can see, it’s a real laptop. It’s just smooshed into a smaller package. Exactly what I want… something really small that does the job of a laptop. Great for browsing, email and other lightweight computer functions. No… It’s not going to do too well playing crysis. lol.

Why haven’t I gotten one? Well, it’s probably a reason you’re familiar with. I want the best one that money can buy, but every week something new is announced. So, it’s the idea that the next best version is just a month away. Therefore, I am hung on which I could purchase.

To make matters worse (or better, depending on how you look at it), there is a computer show going on this week where all new models and options are being announced. This isn’t going to make my decision easier.

I’m just going to have to close my eyes and point to one. lol.

Oh, and for an idea of what I am looking at:

Posted on June 2

4 comments

  1. welshy Jun 3

    i would go with the Eee Pc Just cause it’s got a funny name

  2. supersword Jun 3

    I don’t like the M912 jsut because the spinny screen witchcraft looks a bit flimsy on a machine that size.

    Now the HP TX1150 is a different story. That’s got the spinny screen along with a touch screen and handwriting recognition when you are using the stylus. Just one prob. It’s pretty much double the price of what you are looking at, it’s more than a web browser/email checker and I think HP have stopped making that model. But………. spinny screen.

    I’m not a big fan of the Eee PC’s but they are really quite popular. They look a bit more compact than the MSI machine anyway.

  3. foyleman Jun 4

    Add the Acer Aspire One to the list.

  4. techno2sl Jul 1

    Don’t know much about that particular Acer model, but in the last 4 months I have bought and setup two different Acer Aspire laptops for others. Never used an Acer before then, really impressed with all the utilities that they included which ran alongside vista very well.

    Both the laptops I bought had to be ‘tuned’, windows defender and virus scanners were removed or blocked which made them run just as fast as any other machine handling emails and picture/text docs.

    Both laptops came with a “back to XP” feature, and one actually had a full XP with SP2 install cd. (for a little extra cost)

    Let us know what you get. (I do not work for Acer by the way)

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