Dude, I'm getting a netbook.
It's all Maggie's fault - as her 7-year-old Macbook grew feeble, she invested in an Asus Eee PC 1000 He, which captivated me with its 8.5 hour battery life, not to mention its 3.2-lb. weight. Meanwhile, my 3-year-old Dell Inspiron, also quickly reaching its last legs, gets around 10 minutes of battery life (on a replacement battery, no less!) and weighs a whopping 7 lbs!
So, with a little over a month before we leave, I decided to similarly invest in something that would be convenient for research, if not online movie watching. (I'll bring the Dell along for that very purpose, since we won't have a TV in our apartment.) The new Asus netbook is the Eee PC 1005 Ha (ha!), and it supposedly gets an epic 10.5 hours of battery life (under ideal settings). It also has a 160 GB hard drive, 1 GB ram, and a 1.66 ghz Intel Atom processor. Pretty sweet.
This will be perfect for spending 10.5 hours a day at the library doing research (read: at a cafe, googling). I can't wait!
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