I Bought My Wife A Laptop

She has been using a 2002 era eMachines desktop for a long time, and the imminent XPocalypse (when Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP on April 8) combined with the slowness of it caused me to go look for a used Windows 7 notebook.  Windows 8 is like just hopeless -- and why spend a bunch of money for a brand new computer with an operating system that I cant stand?

Anyway, Windows 7 dual core notebooks are readily available and cheap around Boise.  I bought a Toshiba Portege for $100 and wow!  It is incredibly small -- so when we prepare the worship service (hymns, sermon notes, etc.) with OpenLP, instead of transferring it from her desktop to a Compaq NC6000 that I have, she will just do it here, and well take it with us.  This thing is just a bit larger than some tablet computers.  (Yes, it is 64 bit.)

She will use an external monitor and keyboard, so the relatively compact nature of the screen and keyboard will not be a problem -- but when we go on trips, this is perfect.  It is small enough to fit in her purse; it is open small enough fit in my large overcoat pocket.  And yet it still has a DVD drive in it.  What an incredibly nice piece of size engineering!  It seems to have a pretty decent battery as well.

I have been considering buying a quad core notebook for myself.  The HP DV5220 that I upgraded to Windows 7 works fine, but it is only a dual core system, and a quad core and about 8 GB of RAM would make it scream when doing video editing.  In addition, a newer system probably wont have the problem with not being able to reboot when the 4TB external hard drive is installed.

Oh yes, I am doing this blog on the Toshiba, while sitting in bed.  It is very light and convenient.

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