A new era begins

[djonn]

No, I haven't made a New Year's resolution (though there are probably some I should consider).  In fact, the news is both more prosaic and niftier.  At long last, I've joined the ranks of the techno-portable, and I'm posting via public wi-fi at the library purely because I can.  (Whee!  See how easily amused I've become in middle age....)

The new toy is an impressively compact little Asus Eee netbook, which turned up on one-day sale at deep discount yesterday.  The local chain running the ad evidently wanted to blow out its remaining stock (such as it was); the clerk at the second store I visited said I'd scored the very last one anywhere in their regional  inventory.  (It's also, of course, a dinosaur of sorts, what with netbooks being rapidly supplanted by tablet devices, but for those of us who actually use our computers for wordsmithing, there's much to be said for a machine with a proper keyboard and enough disk space to actually install one's word-processor software.)

And so I join the ranks of those who can sit in a Starbuck's or a library and patter away on their magnum opuses (opi?).  I say again, Wheee!  And now to work....

Comments

[jreynoldsward]

I've gone the tablet plus keyboard option, myself...but it's the Asus Eee tablet and detachable keyboard, which is I think makes it the tablet closest to a netbook. The Son loves his version of it and uses it for college class notetaking. It works, but the keyboard isn't something I like to work on. I've taken conference notes and meeting notes on it and the storage media is the challenge--things work better when I can immediately upload the file to Dropbox. Plus, I prefer a Mac keyboard in a laptop and dread the day my old MacBookPro finally gives up the ghost, so I'll still do that for extended writing.

The big advantage is the bigger screen.

[thnidu]

Good goin'!

Opuses. 1. You're writing English, and 2. the Latin plural is opera. Yes, really.