{"id":4151,"date":"2013-02-13T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:38:11","slug":"new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/02\/13\/new-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"New Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in October of 2012, I was stuck without power (and thus, unable to work) for the better part of two weeks in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy<\/a>. During this time, I tried to keep up with my job using my little 10 inch Acer Aspire One netbook<\/a>, Ryo-Ohki.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, even with a SSD to help speed things up, this little netbook just couldn’t keep up. With only 1 GB of RAM and (perhaps worst of all) just a tiny little 10 inch screen, trying to work all day on this was… difficult<\/em>, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n

So once life returned to normal, I decided it was time to upgrade to a newer, better laptop – one with a decent sized screen that I could actually use to get work done, should I ever need to be away from my desktop computer.<\/p>\n

The landscape of portable computers has changed a lot in the intervening years since I bought my little netbook. For one thing, netbooks have basically disappeared – that niche instead being filled by tablets and low-end (but normal-sized) laptops.<\/p>\n

My criteria for a new laptop were pretty simple:<\/p>\n