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I am always very slow at buying technology but I live with my wife and kids and my wife will make a purchase very quickly. My problem tends to be that I will overanalyze about anything for instance it took me a week of research to get a pair of home stereo headphones and I still have not upgraded my video card on my main home PC.

Anyway my wife a couple of weeks ago secided that she wanted a laptop for herself around the house, asked me what she should get and was on the phone with Dell in about 20 minutes. I was able to slow down the buying process to shop around a bit but that afternoon she was the proud owner of a Dell Inspriron 1525 laptop but still had to wait for it to be built.

We had tried ordering a Dell before, a desktop a couple of years ago and the customer service from India trying to get our 3% corporate discount killed the deal. They got our home address wrong in transit three times with three different addresses and we finally told them to shove it.

This time I hoped for better customer service and we did get it. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been looking aqt these Asus mini laptops for a while. They seem really useful and a great piece of technology to be travelling around with.

Just to let you know what they are made for, the Asus eee is a laptop without a hard drive, it uses flash memory for the OS and to save your files and comes as a really small form factor unit with a mini keyboard and a mini screen. I have seen that htey have Wifi and a simple Linux operating system but Asus says that they plan to ship it with Windows (I suspect the mini version of XP) by Christmas, still haven’t heard of it being out yet.

If you are wondering what the Asus eee is really supposed to be for, I have kind of wondered too. This unit would be great for traveling around town with internet sometimes, calendar always and the option to take any notes or type for a while on.

I think that this is the obvious next step form a PDA as much as people think that smartphones are the future. With a smartphone you get anything that does not require a keyboard really but I could not imagine any cellphone, even my blackberry, as being a replacement for a computer.

I have seen these Asus eee mini laptops in a local computer store but today Asus announced that they had shipped 350,000 so the popularity is definitly there and they will be in Best Buy and other stores in the new year, at that time sales will really pick up and we may see some limnitations as more people use them. So far I love what I see though even if I don’t have one in the palm of my hand yet.