I want one of these:
Cool, or what?
This particular Netbook has been created by Samsung and is labelled as the "NC10": a 10.2 inch electronic beauty. It comes with the Microsoft XP as standard (I know everybody I've ever met complains about that as a system, but it's what I'm used to. I don't know anything else. I'm comfortable with it). It has been enthusiastically reviewed on www.amazon.co.uk - God Bless Amazon. The Aladdin's Cave of Purchases - as being utterly fantastic in 112 cases out of 114 (one of the 2 only negative reviews being solely regarding the colour). It is lightweight yet strong. It has the capability of doing the majority of computer based things that a normal sized computer can do. Etc. Etc.
But the big thing it can do that interests me, dear Blog; the big selling point of the Samsung NC10 from my own personal point of view that it has to capability to download (and allow the efficient use of) Microsoft Home Office, in particular Microsoft Word.
I write. Probably crappy stuff and definitely rarely finished stuff, but I write nonetheless. And (my trusty pad an pencil apart) I use Microsoft Word to do it. Specifically the 1993 version. Yeah. I know. Over a decade out of date. Don't care. I like it better than any of the so-called 'better' versions out there. So there.
Anyway. That is what I use. And as if I ever do finally splash out on a Netbook - any Netbook. Though that one up there is pretty spiffy - writing is the sole thing I would be using it for, access to MS Word is an absolute essential.
I say, "if" because I am still thinking about it. I have been thinking about it for some time. And I will probably go on thinking about it for some time more. And even then, I may not actually buy one.
I want one. Don't get me wrong. I want one. In a childish foot stamping pointing kind of way. WANT with a capital "W". The problem is that I don't technically NEED one. I have a working laptop - my darling Niles; what would I do without you? There madness lies! - and I when using my laptop isn't an option, I have pencil and paper. I am equipped to write (as well as indulging in the marvelous time wasting luxury that is the Internet) until steam comes out of my ears and various bits of me drop off. I do not need a Netbook. It is an expense - even the seemingly too-good-to-be-true mere £45 fee for the Spiffy Samsung NC10 - that I cannot justify.
...But I want one.
I have this wish, sometimes, you see; the wish to be alone in my room and undisturbed, tip-tapping away on a Netbook. I could take my laptop up with me, but despite the machines' overall maneuverability under normal circumstances, my personal circumstances have rendered mine less easily transportable. It isn't impossible, but it is far from convenient. There is also thanks to said inconvenience no way of relocating it unobtrusively and without ceremony.
Bottom line, if I wish to relocate myself, particularly if I wish to do so discretely, it has to be sans laptop. So if I wish to write, I return to my trusty pad and pen. And that should be fine, really it should, but actually it really isn't; not for me. Out and about, sat in a cafe or on a bench somewhere; that is when my brain likes to utilize the pad and pen. At home, my brain likes to type (preferably accompanied by some good, rousing instrumental music)...
...I am torn. A Netbook (or second laptop. But Netbooks are cheaper) is unessential on a fundamental level but at the same time essential on a practical one. I don't actually need one but at the same time actually I do.
I have no clue which side is right.
Perhaps they both are.
But that doesn't really help.
Does anyone else have internal battles like this?
Alice x
PS: did I mention I want one? Because I do. That one =points at Samsung=.
Because it is spiffy.
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