Typer Tappers

I take it you have heard about these new ultra mobile laptops (netbooks), well their not really new but they hit the blogs a lot when they came out, their was a lot of excitement over the Asus Eee laptop rightly so considering its a nice netbook.

Now me I’m too cheap to buy one at the retail price, instead I went one better and used ebay to buy myself a Compaq Evo N400c, now yes it might be 2-3 inches bigger but its a classic and repairable when something goes wrong, I’ve done a few fixes to it such as replacing the hard drive due to the old one failing unfortunately its a higher capacity but what you gonna do its all I had.

As I’m a complete computer nerd I did some upgrades and downgrades to it, I increased the RAM by another 256MB yep nothing in today’s standards but its still nice enough to run Windows 2000 without any trouble. As I just said I have Windows 2000 on it as XP was on it previously who puts XP on a laptop built for Windows 98 seriously? Well same could be said about Win2k but it runs quite well.

I’ve also replaced the nipple on the keyboard as it broke, but yeah its a really nice laptop to blog on, well it was untill WordPress updated it was really nice on it with the old layout , I was considering adding a wireless mini-PCI card in it but I ran low on money so I put up with a spare PCMCIA card which works perfectly fine all around the house, so its a really nice computer takes some maintanance but for a cheap bugger its perfect!

But I am considering buying the new Eee netbook, as I really could use something more modern and durable as its falling to bits, but I feel kind of dissapinted when I look at the Macbook 13″ as that has a massive battery life, and can be used as so much more than just a netbook but then you see the price.

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