Netbook
Netbook - yeah - I am actually writing something called a netbook. If you are reading this blog then you obviously know what a net book is but incase you don't then - in simple terms, netbook is a poor man's laptop used primarily for light work while on the move. Laptops tend to be grunty beasts with the battery life lasting you a good 2-3 hours before they fizzle out and then there is the matter of weight - they are heavy bastards -weighing anywhere upwards on 3KG's. Netbooks on the other hand have a small screen - meaning smaller body and they tend to use non-energy intensive processor which aren't as powerful as fullspeced laptops - which in turn means that your average battery life would be anywhere between 7-10 hours depending on what you are using the netbook for. And the best thing about them - they weigh under 1.5 KG which means you can carry it in your bag without bothering too much about developing a right leaning shoulder. To read more about netbooks - click here.Anyway the reason I am writing about netbooks is that with the upcoming trip to India where I am away for a month and a half I was tossing up with the idea of lugging my faithful old Precision M60 around with me but somehow it didn't feel right. One of the reasons being that it is pretty heavy to carry around and second I am using it right now to edit 'The Moments In Between' and I would hate for anything to happen to it which would prevent me from completing the movie. So I started looking at netbooks with the main purpose being so that I could work on stuff {including working on my assignments for the business leadership course} while I am away without having to rely on someone else's system and also to use it for keeping in touch while travelling. So after weighing up the pros and cons and financial status I decided that the wisest thing to do would be to buy a netbook.
After a fair bit of research I narrowed down to ASUS 1005HA and Samsung NC10 - I veered towards Samsung because it had a non-gloss screen and as I was about to buy online {Samsung doesn't sell netbooks in NZ for some weird reason} I found that they had just released an improved version of NC10 called the N140, so I went ahead and bought it. Another week and it should be here - just in time for my upcoming journey. I could have bought it in Hong Kong but they apparently sell only netbooks loaded with the chinese version of Windows - which would have become a slight issue in the overall scheme of things. :-)
So here is fingers crossed that it comes through quickly.
Later,
Amit
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