My Sony Vaio is giving a spectacularly low battery life these days – just about 40 minutes of web browsing. But that’s ok, I bought is as a desktop replacement and when plugged in, it works a treat.<\/p>\n
However, my needs have changed. I need ultraportability. I need a small computer that i can throw into a backpack that isn’t going to cripple me and gives me at least a train journey’s worth of usage. I’ve looked around and found that if I’m to stick with Vaio i’m looking at about a grand and a half. A lot of readies for yet another Sony.<\/p>\n
Whilst shopping around I came across the 12″ Apple iBook<\/a> at a mere \u00a3699. A pretty low price for something made of bulletproof glass. I’m keen. I used to use an Apple Mac in my previous job and know my way around the system. For the last five years, my job has dictated that I use a PC but to be honest I’m happy in Mac OS, Windows and even some versions of Linux. I even considered the Nokia 770 internet tablet<\/a> and various Palms but was put off by the lack of a keyboard. Same goes for the Sony PSP which also contains a pretty decent web browser but again, no keyboard.<\/p>\n The primary use of whatever I end up buying will be to surf the web wirelessly – update a site or two via WordPress or similar, buy stuff, read the news, check e-mail. I’m not going to be doing anything too special with it. As I say, my Vaio is perfectly good for that. So, can anybody assure me that this would be a good choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Sony Vaio is giving a spectacularly low battery life these days – just about 40 minutes of web browsing. But that’s ok, I bought is as a desktop replacement and when plugged in, it works a treat. However, my needs have changed. I need ultraportability. I need a small computer that i can throw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}