neat and light laptop?

[MikeC1408]

Are you a contractor or a permie for gods sake!!!!!!

Me, I'm a contractor and would pay that

But, the last line of his post did say he didn't want to pay that amount.

[mailric]

i'd pay it, if i wasn't a clumsy oaf and convinced i'd drop it / lose it.

so 1000 is the limit i want to risk

[Ardesco]

Goodness me, next you'll be telling me your IT equipment isn't insured.....

[Spacecadet]

i'd pay it, if i wasn't a clumsy oaf and convinced i'd drop it / lose it.

so 1000 is the limit i want to risk

I got 3 year accident/theft cover included with my Dell when I bought it (and 3 year global onsite warranty repair).
It pays to haggle

And I have claimed on that accident repair - Dell were seriously fecking easy when it came to it, no questions, no trouble, new parts sent out next day delivery to an address of my choice

[Fred Bloggs]

I think battery life kills off anything with mechanical hard disks etc as fasr as I'm concerned. We need a device with a full school day of battery power really. I think an EEE may be the only option.

Can such a device as an EEE really run typical Windows bloatware applications, anti virus etc... and not grind to halt for lack of horse power?

[ft101]

I have an asus eee pc, the earlier 701 (?) with the small 7" screen. It was great on a round the world trip for checking email, banking etc through wifi hotspots, but the keyboard gets seriously tiring after a while and the screen too.

Horsepower wise, its seems to be better than its 600mghz would suggest, I even had Gimp and Raw converter running converting 8megapixal raw files (6Mb+) to jpg files no probs (bit slow mind)

Battery life is actually not great at 2 hrs approx.

I would not recommend one for business use apart from perhaps the odd occasion such as adhoc pen testing, security testing. Would not write a report on one though.

[cojak]

I've just bought an Asus Eee PC 901 Linux (20gb) but you can get them in XP (12gb) as well. (8.9" screen)

Asus says it has a battery life of 7 hrs, reviewers have definitely gone over 4hrs.

These machines are definitely not for report writing of anything that requires long hours in front of them - for that you'd need the Eee PC 1000. But they are excellent for using on the hoof, accessing wi-fi, watching videos and typing the odd email on the train/airport/wetherspoons. I have it for exactly that as my 2nd laptop.

The Eee PC 1000 has a 10" screen which might be what you're looking for...

[mailric]

I've just bought an Asus Eee PC 901 Linux (20gb) but you can get them in XP (12gb) as well. (8.9" screen)

Asus says it has a battery life of 7 hrs, reviewers have definitely gone over 4hrs.

These machines are definitely not for report writing of anything that requires long hours in front of them - for that you'd need the Eee PC 1000. But they are excellent for using on the hoof, accessing wi-fi, watching videos and typing the odd email on the train/airport/wetherspoons. I have it for exactly that as my 2nd laptop.

The Eee PC 1000 has a 10" screen which might be what you're looking for...

will look into the PC 1000 over the weekend. cheers.

just got my e71 in the post so busy playing with that for now

[OwlHoot]

The HP Pavilion 2550, with a 12" touch screen, looks good

[bobsmithldn]

MacBook Air!

init!

Great battery life.