- Aforementioned small size
- RJ-45 (goodbye Macbook Air)
- 802.11g
- Any OS (OS X, Linux, XP preferred in that order.. WinCE would suffice, but just)
- At least one USB port
- One 1394 port
- At largest, a 12" screen
- 802.11n
- bluetooth
I have a 3rd option to connect, well 3rd and 4th, as well: company Wi-Fi and public Wi-Fi that bathes the campus where my office is located. As you can imagine the public Wi-Fi is kind of, ahem, busy most times so I prefer to connect to the Internet via the orange Ethernet cable at my desk. The 2nd small laptop would sit on my desk attached to the Internet were I could do all the things I'm technically not supposed to do during long teleconferences that don't apply to me (that I also seem to have to attend on a regular basis).
Right now the Asus eee PC looks like a front runner. The cost is low enough and I
2 comments:
"and I" ...
Come on man, don't leave us hanging like that! :-)
Out of curiosity, btw, will the USB ethernet dongle the MacBook Air comes with (or is it an add-on option?) not work for you?
...."and I" think I could afford one? I don't know, but that might be what I was going to type.
Yeah, the USB dongle on the Macbook Air will work but I just don't want to go back to the days of the dongle. I remember having to carry one for my first PCMCIA ethernet card and another for my modem card. Yuk. It just seems like it should have been possible to include a RJ-45 in there somewhere.
The real difference is cost when comparing the Macbook Air and the eee PC. If I could afford a Macbook Air I'd probably already have one on order!! But times are tight and even though I am a DINK I can't seem to have everything I want. Oh well. :( I can survive a couple more years with my dual processor 2.0 Ghz Macbook which, really, is a nice little laptop.
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