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Right size, right price, right set of features

T1Oracle 8th Apr 2009

I need a portable computer to access the internet to do my school work at school. At home I have a powerful desktop. I didn't want to pay for a laptop that was going to see little use and then have HD failures because it gets moved around too much. So I got a netbook with an SSD.

The Eee PC I has all the software I need, does all the web browsing I need, and it does it in a very portable 2.5lbs package. With a 7 hour battery I usually don't need to bring a power cable.

Full laptops cannot compete with the energy efficiency of a good netbook.

As for phones, the data plan's and wireless carrier rip offs kill the idea of smart phones for me. Paying $2000 for a phone and its contract does not sound very smart to me. I won't do $2000 worth of talking, and on that tiny screen there is no way I will do $2000 worth of web browsing either.

Smart phones are backwards because they take the one device that should be tiny, (remember when phones were small?) and they make it big so that the screen is visible. If I have to carry the phone at all times I want it to be as small as possible. A netbook is something I can leave behind, a phone is not.