saved by a netbook!

Hi Niners!

I have a key company meeting tomorrow off site. We have been working hard on our reports and presentations for taking the company forward. So I get in work this morning early and finish everything off nicely for lunch time. I get out my xps 1330 so I can take my files with me and have something to keep myself busy with as were in a hotel for a couple of days. I fire it up, log in and bang. Graphics card has completely gone. Blown up somehow by the demons of fate. Im quickly searching online for a replacement card I can rush and get and I learn that the card is actually soldered into the board. Disaster. Ive worked so hard and now I cant show any of my points on topics I have to cover and im stuck with nothing to do. Ive heard of these netbooks and decide to just go for it, £300 Samsung NC10. Im a touch typist and ive seen the mini dells and the keyboard is just unworkable for me.

So I get this thing back and its setup with almost no bloatware in 10 minutes. I copy all my files over and start to install office. Im thinking damn I should have bought the ram stick which is 2g but I diddnt realise you could do that until I got it back to the office. Im shocked. Office is installed lightning fast on the 160 gb hard drive and I really mean fast.

The office gets locked up and I sitll have loads to do. I get home, bang its on the wireless no problem, straight on the vpn, straight on my dev workstation and I start to do the stuff I needed to finish in sql and vs. Ok the 10.1" means you have to make some windows that little bit smaller (like immediate etc) but its flying. No lag at all.

I cant believe this. Im dying to find someway to fault it but I cant.

Saved by modern cheap computing and totally shocked by the performance and build feel. These are great days : )

Thanks!
Pace