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I just bought one to try use as a little brother to my existing laptop. I spends several hours during the day away from the office but with the ability to do w
by ashimpact 18y ago
I just bought one to try use as a little brother to my existing laptop. I spends several hours during the day away from the office but with the ability to do work (coffee shops, etc). I thought that instead of lugging my primary workstation around, I could use the netbook. Jury's still out since it's only been a few days, but the smaller keyboard does affect my productivity/typing speed.
- brk 18y agoThis pretty much mirrors my reasons. I move around a lot, meetings at remote sites, day trips, work for a few hours from some random coffee shop. Also, I have my sideline job where I host a growing cache of customer servers in a datacenter I have some space carved out of. Lastly, I spend most of my weekends at a second home and in the summer spend a sub-part of those weekends on my boat. In all these cases a small, portable, light-weight machine is often all I need or want for the basic tasks I'll be doing. A netbook (Asus EEE 4G) with my Verizon USB EVDO dongle gives me portable computing, with or without Wifi available. The fact that it's pretty much impossible to store anything personal/private on it (especially if you don't store passwords in FF) and the low cost make it basically disposable if it gets lost/damaged/stolen/dropped in the lake. If 99% of my job was spent in a cubicle I would probably have less use for it. Sometimes it'll sit for a month, sometimes it will get used almost everyday.