New Toy In the House
For the whole summer, I’ve been obsessing about netbooks. I have spent dozens of hours reading about the old, new and up-coming models. Surprisingly, after several monologues of trying to convince her, Katja agreed that a netbook (mini-sized laptop that is meant mainly for web use and e-mail) would be kind of nice to have around the house. We are planning to use our new baby at home (e.g., on the sofa) and on the move (on the beach, in the park and during trips). A netbook is a great and mobile option for someone who’s looking for a device for e-mail checking, web surfing and light text processing. A netbook also offers entertainment in a form of games, videos and music.
[nerd jargon] First, I was after a brand new Asus Eee PC model 901 with 8.9″ screen, Intel Atom processor and 20 GB of storage space, but, on last Thursday, I ended up getting an older 701 model with 7″ screen, Intel Mobile Celeron processor and 4 GB of storage space. [/nerd jargon] 701 wasn’t nowhere near as expensive (toy) as the 901 would have been, so I bought that one instead. Netbooks, regardless of the technology inside the chassis, are not capable of replacing “a real computer” so, in my opinion, it doesn’t matter if the processor is not the newest of kind or the screen is a tad smaller than in the other model. Netbooks are always mini-sized laptops.
As you can see from the picture above, our Eee PC is very small. It is 22.5 cm wide and 16.5 cm deep. The height is some where around three centimeters. This netbook weighs about 920 grams. It fits into almost any purse or bag and it’s easy to take along. In addition to all other features, it looks very pretty on our new IKEA side table!