I might get there eventually...
Current laptop, an aged Samsung NC10 running XP. It has Open Office installed, including Gimp the photo editor. Oh, and Spotify. So that's what the computer does - plus obviously some internet.
It needs a new OS and a new battery, which seems like a lot to spend on something so ancient. So; what to do.
I don't need to do anything clever; no photo editing; no handling huge quantities of data; no gaming. The NC10 was purchased to provide portable internet - with a dongle - but obviously it has now been rendered unnecessary by the iPhone.
It wants to be lightweight and portable - I won't take it many places, but there's no point in it not being. Equally, it wants to be a bit bigger than the 10" of the NC10. Some time spent in John Lewis showed a bewildering array of nice thin laptops. I saw Zero recommending the Asus T100 Chi the other week. Which is basically a pad with a keyboard. Which made me wonder whether what I should actually do is to buy a keyboard for my Chi-Pad.
Budget: not too much; you all know I hate spending money on consumables!
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