You sound like you know what you want, but I've been researching the Asus eee for a work project, and while you're right about it only having 4GB of drive space, it also has an SD card slot, which people have been using to bump that up quite a bit (such as carrying around two or even three 8GB cards.) Still not much in comparison to a 'real' laptop with a 80-100GB hard drive, though the flash drive is apparently particularly useful in situations where the device is likely to get banged around quite a bit.
I saw a random thread on a tech forum the other day where a guy was saying he was about to depart on a round-the-world trip, including the Mt Everest base camp, Asia and Africa, with just a backpack, and was wondering what people would recommend, laptop wise.
The eee won, hands down, because it's cheap (thus not hideous to replace if it gets stolen), hard drives don't fare well in high altitudes, it's light and portable, and he can carry as many good-sized SD cards as he wants to supplement the size of the drive -- and by keeping them separate from the device, he'd be covered if it did get stolen. None of that's relevant for you, of course, but I thought it was an interesting discussion.
I've actually thought I might get one when my laptop needs to be replaced. It has wifi, and USB, meaning I could use the same setup for connecting to the internet that I use now (near broadband speeds through my wireless phone company.)
But the UMPC's are supposed to be really cool, too. Good look getting your hands on one!
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Date: 2008-02-12 03:19 am (UTC)I saw a random thread on a tech forum the other day where a guy was saying he was about to depart on a round-the-world trip, including the Mt Everest base camp, Asia and Africa, with just a backpack, and was wondering what people would recommend, laptop wise.
The eee won, hands down, because it's cheap (thus not hideous to replace if it gets stolen), hard drives don't fare well in high altitudes, it's light and portable, and he can carry as many good-sized SD cards as he wants to supplement the size of the drive -- and by keeping them separate from the device, he'd be covered if it did get stolen. None of that's relevant for you, of course, but I thought it was an interesting discussion.
I've actually thought I might get one when my laptop needs to be replaced. It has wifi, and USB, meaning I could use the same setup for connecting to the internet that I use now (near broadband speeds through my wireless phone company.)
But the UMPC's are supposed to be really cool, too. Good look getting your hands on one!