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skyringThe shop where I enquired after a laptop for Kerri was closed when we went around this morning. They don't do weekends.
Their loss. The alternate distributer didn't have the model in stock and their smallest laptop was too big.
So we looked in at Harvey Norman's, where I announced that we wanted the smallest and most powerful computer they had. This turned out to be the Toshiba Libretto U100 a machine about the size and shape and weight of a trade paperback. Under a kilo.
A 7.2 in screen. Tiny. Think of something about a quarter the size of a normal laptop screen. But the resolution is awesome. It does wireless with a g, DVD/CD read and write, 2 USB, PC card, Bluetooth, SD card reader. Needs a dongle to output to an external monitor. The keyboard is a bit small for comfortable typing. It uses a nipple pointer below the keyboard. The optical drive is on an expansion pack which increases the footprint and weight marginally.
Not entirely sure that I'd be happy with it - I found my 66% keyboard on my Jornada 720 a bit hard to use accurately and this isn't much bigger - but Kerri loves it. She had to spend the money before July 1 or lose it back to the department, so it's not as if it actually cost us anything.
I'll never look at my Dell with the same eyes again. It's always going to be big and clunky now, but Kerri can slide her computer into her handbag. I don't think I'd want something quite that small, but the next size up I could live with.
Their loss. The alternate distributer didn't have the model in stock and their smallest laptop was too big.
So we looked in at Harvey Norman's, where I announced that we wanted the smallest and most powerful computer they had. This turned out to be the Toshiba Libretto U100 a machine about the size and shape and weight of a trade paperback. Under a kilo.
A 7.2 in screen. Tiny. Think of something about a quarter the size of a normal laptop screen. But the resolution is awesome. It does wireless with a g, DVD/CD read and write, 2 USB, PC card, Bluetooth, SD card reader. Needs a dongle to output to an external monitor. The keyboard is a bit small for comfortable typing. It uses a nipple pointer below the keyboard. The optical drive is on an expansion pack which increases the footprint and weight marginally.
Not entirely sure that I'd be happy with it - I found my 66% keyboard on my Jornada 720 a bit hard to use accurately and this isn't much bigger - but Kerri loves it. She had to spend the money before July 1 or lose it back to the department, so it's not as if it actually cost us anything.
I'll never look at my Dell with the same eyes again. It's always going to be big and clunky now, but Kerri can slide her computer into her handbag. I don't think I'd want something quite that small, but the next size up I could live with.
