I’ve come to realize that keeping up with a blog is quite difficult when you work full-time in auto assembly with an unpaid part-time position as a floral designer (family work).
My new direction is finding a suitable umpc/mid/ultraportable/small form factor laptop or whatever to handle my blogging duties.
Now my requirements are simple, yet, I’m fairly picky on those and a little stiff to bulge.
Must be small, less than 4lbs in weight and have a qwerty keyboard running some version of a Windows OS, XP or Vista. I don’t have the time or patience to learn Linux. I respect it as an superior operating system, however, I am busy, and I need the larger and more accessible suite of software available for windows.
secondly, I need at least 9″ of screen. 7 inches is a little too small, which rules out the 7″ first gen eeePC and cloudbook. however there are quite a few coming out that are going fit these criteria so far, 2nd gen 9″ eeePC, HP 2133, MSI whatever, and Dell’s unannounced lappie.
third and fourth, minimum of 1ghz processor and 1gig ram, and lastly at least 8Gb hard storage and SDHC slot or minimum 100 Gb hard drive.
and all under $500 plx. =)
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