Moving onto a small notebook

For many years I have considered that really small notebooks are impractical. I know several people who have been using them for a long time, paying obscene prices for the privilege.

When the Asus EEE PC came out it caught my attention and I have been following all the releases by different manufacturers as netbooks became all the fashion. A run in with a 10-inch EEE PC quickly brought me to the decision to buy one. It was as small as the Vaios most of my friends were using but costing less than a third the price.

I was very positively surprised with how good the computer is. It looks great, though it is a bit prone to registering your fingerprints on the top of the cover, and it works even better. I've always considered that netbooks are second computers and I find my self having this confirmed but in an oddly different way. I decided right from the start that I would not store personal data on the netbook, carrying with me only the data I needed to accomplish the tasks at hand. I find this keeps my data safer as it does not really leave my home. I maintained that the netbook would be perfect to always carry around while at home I would prefer to use a larger more confortable computer.

To my surprise I find myself turning more and more to my EEE PC 1000 HD, which is nothing more than a celeron 900 MHz and leaving untouched both my Core Duo and Core 2 Duo notebooks.

The light weight and lower temperature at which the EEE PC operates makes it my obvious choice to use on my lap. After 2 weeks of experience with the EEE PC 1000 HD, I highly recomend you taking a closer look at it. I imagine that the 1000 with a solid state drive instead of the traditional hard drive and with the Atom processor should be even more interesting.