My laptop is acting up. You know the usual stuff, pretty much getting on my nerves and making blogging a big pain. So I have started to look at computers. I was thinking about a netbook. Something light and super portable. I finally found one that I like the color of and it felt comfortable in my hands. But then I noticed it came with Windows 7 Starter. I am not all the familiar with Windows 7 . It took me a while to make the change to Vista. Anyways I am pretty sure I don’t want the starter version. Knowing myself, I will want to upgrade eventually so why not do it to begin with. But none of the notebooks came with Windows 7 Premium. That got me to thinking, maybe a netbook can not handle premium that is why it is not offered. But I really want a netbook, my husband says it my obsession with all things tiny and he may be a little right.
So we walked around Best Buy and my husband showed me two touch computers. One was a HP the other was a Gateway. The Gateway was about $300 cheaper. Side by side the HP picture seemed sharper, sounded great, and I like the way the keyboard looked. Of course I typed in my blog as well as many of my friends blogs to see how they looked. (Btw, all you of your sites looked great!!) I liked playing around on them and was almost convinced. Then I thought about how much use I would really get out of it. I love being able to move around and get on the computer in my office, at the library, in my bedroom, outside, wherever. I can’t do that with a touchscreen desktop, no matter how slim and cool it looks.
So back I go to look at the laptops and netbooks. Lifting each one up to see how light they are. Then I noticed that was a waste of time because none of the computers had their batteries attached!! So they will all weigh differently in the end.
Now I am at the point of asking myself what am I really looking for:
- longer battery life (2 hours is just not enough)
- dark color ( i rubbed the grey off my current mouse pad)
- lightweight ( current HP is very heavy when walking through airport)
- fast speed ( I usually have more than 3 programs up and hate when they lag)
- Windows Home Premium (99% sure)
I have been seeing this Asus brand around but not too sure about it. Right now a Toshiba Satellite Laptop is on the top of my list. Do you have any opinions or advice for me? I need to what you might be using and what you like or dislike about it. Help me out please!!!
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I have a Toshiba Satellite, and I LOVE it! It’s not the lightest in the world compared to some, still not that heavy, but the battery power is pretty good – depending on all that I am running, I get 3 hours out of it (I’m a multi-tasker… oh, alright, I have ADD on the computer and open way too many things, lol)
My last one, a Dell, fell apart way too quickly. I type a LOT, the keys aren’t wearing done yet or sticking like the Dell did quickly. I’ve had this one since October.
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This is good to hear! I always have a lot of things open to and it drives me crazy when my computer starts to freeze. Thanks for the tip about the keys too, that makes a difference.
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