Summer Shopping Sucks

[mirli]

I've been saving up for a netbook for some time and am positive that I'm going to purchase an Acer Aspire One soon. And for some reason I really liked the blue one when I saw the pictures from various unpackings and reviews. This is strange, as I dislike more shades of blue than of any other colour (and those that I do like are usually almost

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[palfrey]

Ah, the bonus points of living in London again: being able to wander into the centre last Saturday and try out a few models just by wandering down one road (including pretty much every EEE model in existence).

I don't really need a 120Gb HDD, but 8gb is a little on the small side. Given this will probably replace my current laptop as my "random stuff" machine, I would quite like to go back to having an hdd in the laptop that's large enough to store a copy of my music collection (~20-something gb - current laptop is 60gb, but I have too much other crap on it), and even without that I can easily eat my way through 8gb of random other misc probably without even blinking.

I'm less concerned about Apple's prices, more a matter of hating their design decisions - OS X makes me feel like I'm trapped in a little claustrophobic box, and I won't surrender to the iPod masses despite my need want for a new media player of decent storage size. That, and they haven't got a netbook-like device (ok, there's the Air, but it's a tad too big and *stupidly* expensive, even for Apple)

[mirli]

Yup, 8 gig is easy to fill and even if you use the extra SD slot you only get another 8 (I think).
*g* Those were the days, when you could back-up everything on a zip disk... playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. We totally live in the future.