daniel and emily

The first words out of my mouth were, "Oh how cute!"

Emily has been really wanting a new laptop computer for quite some time.  I sold some old web servers and put that money into a new laptop computer.... but  it's not just any normal laptop.  It's an Eee PC 1000 - an ultra-portable mini laptop.

The Eee PC  is a full-featured laptop that's very tiny.  It has a 10 inch screen.  It has a gigabyte of ram, and a 40 gigabtye solid state  hard drive. The solid state hard drive is nicer than the old fashioned hard drives with moving parts.  It features a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor -- a new, very small  CPU that doesn't need a lot of cooling.  They advertise up to 7 hours of uninterrupted use on one battery charge.  It also has a built in web cam.

I really wanted this laptop because the old laptop was noisy and hot -- like working on a blow dryer.  The old laptop took like 2 minutes to boot; this one boots in less than 25 seconds (because of the solid state hard drive).  Oh, and it comes with Linux pre-installed -- another plus.

In fact, I'm using it right now to write this blog post.

Comments

• Hey Dan and Emily- Your family looks so happy. Just wanted to say Hi and hope all is as well as it appears. Hope your gearing up for a cold winter!
  by Lacie on 07 October 2008 at 12:17 p.m.

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