"mini" laptops/notebooks - please advise!

Leopard

devizes18193 wrote: »

The other thng is usb ports , In this day and age we all tend to gather accesories , mobile phone dongels , card readers and the like ,and you can never had to many . In the least if your typing at home you can always plug in a keybord

If you (can) use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, instead, you don't have to sacrifice one of those invaluable USB2 ports.

rainbow_carnage wrote: »

I write for a living. I use a Toshiba Satellite laptop. The next time I buy a laptop, I'm switching to a Mac. I'm also about to buy a netbook, but not for work.

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We also have a G5 Power Mac desktop in the house. It's four years old. We haven't had a single serious problem with it. In the meantime, I've gone through three laptops. Get an external hard drive and back everything up. I also e-mail every new major draft to myself, just in case the laptop and the hard drive die at the same time. It's been known to happen.

rainbow_carnage,

Apple's MobileMe gives you an iDisk facility.

When you get your MacBook (Pro?) you'll be able to keep your G5 in synch with it.

I created a "Work in Progress" folder on my iDisk. I put into that a copy of any files I'm working on or that I might need at another location or on another of my Macs (e.g. databases and spreadsheets).

Anywhere I am, I can keep working on whatever I'm doing and it synchs this to the local iDisks on all my other Macs automatically. It keeps the main copy on Apple's server and puts slave versions into the iDisks stored on all my Macs. I've found that invaluable.

If you Mac-hack your netbook it will behave like a MacBook and do the same.