While my little Eee served me valliantly, the 7" screen means horizontal scroll on just about every website, which is rather painful. It also had a way of freezing if I had more than a couple of programs running.
Last weekend, we went shopping in Osaka, and as I looked at laptops, I realised that I could get a pretty good one, as in equivalent to my desktop at home, for about $500. I thought for a bit, but gave in rather easily. The best deal I could find was a Dell inspiron (they sell Dells in store here). Also a major consideration was the size of the spacebar key, as many Japanese keyboards have an absolutely tiny spacebar key. Having decided on the laptop, I purchased it, and was informed that in would be delivered in a week.
Late last night (just 3 business days later) a shiny red laptop was delivered, which I am now playing with and trying to figure out. Windows has been convinced to appear in English (with a few exceptions), and I am adjusting to the slightly different keyboard layout. It is nice and fast, which makes Lucy happy, and now I just need to install Ubuntu, as soon as I've bought a DVD to back-up Windows to.
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