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Netbook vs. laptop vs. iPod Touch
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:26 pmGoal status:
1. Sink: Clean and wiped out.
2. Exercise: None. I had knit group tonight, and the temp outside is 14 degrees. We did walk to the mail center last night -- when it was 4 degrees. Now that I have feeling in my legs once more, I'm not doing that again soon.
3. WIP Wipeout: Worked on Elfin socks and completed the cuff on one. Worked on CPH cardigan at knit group; still on the two fronts.
4. Blogging: Missed Monday, but I'm here now.
5. Bed by 11:30: Um. Yeah. (see timestamp)
Work is crazy frantic busy. I usually have the billing complete after the first business day, but due to a very large project and the need to create a consolidated statement out of over 120 invoices, I haven't even started on the month-end tasks yet. We have people from the Cleveland unit in for training today and tomorrow, and I'll be losing a serious chunk of my Wednesday to meetings. I normally try to take my lunch hours to keep my stress levels down, but the workload sitting there makes it even more stressful. So I take just long enough to eat my sandwich, drink a glass of water and skim a few fics via ReadItLater on my iPod Touch.
So far I think I like the iTouch better than my PalmPilot, just because I don't have to perform data contortions to get readable fic on a portable source. I still have a few wrinkles to iron out; any LJ or DW page requiring an age statement or login doesn't save the actual page in ReadItLater; you just get the age statement screen. I'm wondering if there's an app for that. Since I can't connect to the wireless network at work (and really wouldn't chance trying to visit LJ or DW for age-restricted posts anyway), my only hope is to get the actual story pages saved for offline reading while I'm at home. Need time to do more research...
I'll admit that the netbook had advantages in this area; the type on the iTouch is small, even when you flip it sideways and zoom in. Typing is easier with a real keyboard. But the netbook can't fit in my pocket when I desperately need a break and go hide in the bathroom for five minutes. And I can't haul out the netbook and set up a quick task when it occurs to me; it took too long to boot up, even in standby. And the iTouch was a hell of a lot lighter to carry on my recent flight to Cleveland.
The final decision to return the netbook came when I weighed the netbook and my old purchased-off-lease laptop. One pound: that's the difference in weight between the Samsung netbook (with five-hour battery) and the Dell Latitude I already owned. If I really need the computing power or the keyboard, I'll just lug a totebag with the Dell instead of the netbook. In the meantime, I'll have fanfic in the palm of my hand, or riding safely in my pocket when I need a small smut break. And that makes all the stress just a little bit easier to bear.
1. Sink: Clean and wiped out.
2. Exercise: None. I had knit group tonight, and the temp outside is 14 degrees. We did walk to the mail center last night -- when it was 4 degrees. Now that I have feeling in my legs once more, I'm not doing that again soon.
3. WIP Wipeout: Worked on Elfin socks and completed the cuff on one. Worked on CPH cardigan at knit group; still on the two fronts.
4. Blogging: Missed Monday, but I'm here now.
5. Bed by 11:30: Um. Yeah. (see timestamp)
Work is crazy frantic busy. I usually have the billing complete after the first business day, but due to a very large project and the need to create a consolidated statement out of over 120 invoices, I haven't even started on the month-end tasks yet. We have people from the Cleveland unit in for training today and tomorrow, and I'll be losing a serious chunk of my Wednesday to meetings. I normally try to take my lunch hours to keep my stress levels down, but the workload sitting there makes it even more stressful. So I take just long enough to eat my sandwich, drink a glass of water and skim a few fics via ReadItLater on my iPod Touch.
So far I think I like the iTouch better than my PalmPilot, just because I don't have to perform data contortions to get readable fic on a portable source. I still have a few wrinkles to iron out; any LJ or DW page requiring an age statement or login doesn't save the actual page in ReadItLater; you just get the age statement screen. I'm wondering if there's an app for that. Since I can't connect to the wireless network at work (and really wouldn't chance trying to visit LJ or DW for age-restricted posts anyway), my only hope is to get the actual story pages saved for offline reading while I'm at home. Need time to do more research...
I'll admit that the netbook had advantages in this area; the type on the iTouch is small, even when you flip it sideways and zoom in. Typing is easier with a real keyboard. But the netbook can't fit in my pocket when I desperately need a break and go hide in the bathroom for five minutes. And I can't haul out the netbook and set up a quick task when it occurs to me; it took too long to boot up, even in standby. And the iTouch was a hell of a lot lighter to carry on my recent flight to Cleveland.
The final decision to return the netbook came when I weighed the netbook and my old purchased-off-lease laptop. One pound: that's the difference in weight between the Samsung netbook (with five-hour battery) and the Dell Latitude I already owned. If I really need the computing power or the keyboard, I'll just lug a totebag with the Dell instead of the netbook. In the meantime, I'll have fanfic in the palm of my hand, or riding safely in my pocket when I need a small smut break. And that makes all the stress just a little bit easier to bear.
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