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DEL.ICIO.USA skinny companion for vacation trips
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Palm-sized computers just don’t feel right to me and I hate carrying a laptop on trips - unless I’m working - since I like to travel light.
All I really need to do while on pleasure trips is check e-mail from time-to-time and maybe find a restaurant review or directions online.
For people like me, this $400 laptop might be the answer.
There are all sorts of limitations - and you would expect that in a $400 machine. The screen is tiny, the storage memory (the hard disk) is way small, there isn’t much RAM and you sure aren’t going to play games with this computer. It comes with Linux (I didn’t list that in the limitations - it’s a plus, about the only way you’d get adequate performance out of a machine with hardware at the bare minimum).
It does come with the ability to surf the Web and to do word processing, spreadsheets - stuff like that.
The keyboard didn’t get kind reviews, it’s cramped … but that also seems like an expected tradeoff for the size and price. I have it on my personal Christmas watch list.
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