On The Bandwagon

A couple of people in the office have invested in the Asus EEE PC or other "NetBooks" of one variety or another. I've been weighing up the options myself over the past few weeks, and this weekend picked up an Advent 4211 from my local PC World. The Advent is just a re-badged MSI Wind which has been receiving some good reviews.

I question whether the MSI is really a NetBook (not that that is especially well defined) as it has a regular 80GB hard drive rather than the SSDs that seem to be the norm. The reviews seem to criticise the battery life, but I haven't suffered from this at the moment, as I only need the thing for an hour or so at a time (on the train for instance).

But it is useful. The fact that I'm able to write this post on the train is testament to its utility for me.

I've installed the things I'd associate to writing and thinking rather than any kind of development kit. That means Office 2007, the Live suite (for Mail and LiveWriter), and of course Mesh - which plays to the notion of this thing being a 'companion' to my main devices.

This was also my first experience of buying stuff at PC World. And that's the only comment I have on that.

Anyway, here I am on the bandwagon.