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Netbook/Notebook?
Mar. 27th, 2009 10:24 pmCross posted from theladiesloos
I need a small, very light, transportable computer.
I want to take it to the library with me, so I need it to be small and very light since my medical conditions make it difficult to carry anything heavy. I doesn't have to be very advanced or have loads of whizz-bang apps., because mainly I want to be able to use it for my writing, as, owing to arthritis, my handwriting has become so bad that I can't read things back in order to copy them to the PC. It would be quite nice if it were wifi enabled so that I could send e-mail and maybe look stuff up on the Internet, although the latter is not so important since I shall be in a very well-stocked library. Of course, it's possible that I will get so enchanted with it that I will want to take it elsewhere for other purposes, although I don't know what they might be yet.
I need it to have a Windows OS, preferably XP, as the writing program I use for my novel is made for Windows. I also need to be able to install that program on the machine so that I can keep everything up to date. I understand that some such notebooks/netbooks don't have any way of installing other programs, but that some have the ability to have things installed via a data stick.
It would be nice if it had a good long battery life when in use.
Naturally I don't want to spend any more money that I can avoid and I wouldn't mind buying second hand provided that I could be sure of what I was getting, but this presupposes that I know what I want and I have to admit that I've rather lost sight of new developments in the computer world.
So I'm hoping someone may have helpful informatiom for me.
I need a small, very light, transportable computer.
I want to take it to the library with me, so I need it to be small and very light since my medical conditions make it difficult to carry anything heavy. I doesn't have to be very advanced or have loads of whizz-bang apps., because mainly I want to be able to use it for my writing, as, owing to arthritis, my handwriting has become so bad that I can't read things back in order to copy them to the PC. It would be quite nice if it were wifi enabled so that I could send e-mail and maybe look stuff up on the Internet, although the latter is not so important since I shall be in a very well-stocked library. Of course, it's possible that I will get so enchanted with it that I will want to take it elsewhere for other purposes, although I don't know what they might be yet.
I need it to have a Windows OS, preferably XP, as the writing program I use for my novel is made for Windows. I also need to be able to install that program on the machine so that I can keep everything up to date. I understand that some such notebooks/netbooks don't have any way of installing other programs, but that some have the ability to have things installed via a data stick.
It would be nice if it had a good long battery life when in use.
Naturally I don't want to spend any more money that I can avoid and I wouldn't mind buying second hand provided that I could be sure of what I was getting, but this presupposes that I know what I want and I have to admit that I've rather lost sight of new developments in the computer world.
So I'm hoping someone may have helpful informatiom for me.
