Three reasons to buy an EeePC

So it’s been a pretty ordinary week, thankfully I’ve only had to work three days instead of doing five in a row like I did last week.

I know I’ve been pretty bad with updates lately, which is really weird, since I come up with all these great topics to blog about while I’m at work, but by the time I get home I just want to sit back and read, and play a little WoW afterwards. The low, low temperatures don’t exactly get the blogging juices flowing either, especially when your feet don’t have a layer of fat on them to keep them warm. Which kind of brings me, in a roundabout way, to one topic that I’ve been especially enthusiastic about this whole week.

The EeePC.

“But you already have two computers, Brian!” I can hear you saying with exasperation, but hear me out. My desktop is primarily used for gaming and image editing (doesn’t image editing sound so much more professional than picture editing?), as well as internet browsing. My laptop pretty much does the same thing, but I only use it when I leave home for a few days at a time.

Here’s why getting the EeePC is such a great idea: It’s small, it weighs less than a kilo, and it boots up pretty quickly, all things that I love in a portable computer. Just think about it, you’re on the train for an hour or so, and you want to watch something, or possibly type a blog entry. Would you rather pull out a heavy notebook that weighs 1.67kg and takes forty seconds to boot up? Or would you rather slip your ultra portable EeePC out of your bag and turn it on pretty much immediately?

By the time you’ve pulled the heavier notebook out of your bag, you’ve either lost the urge to blog, or the idea of going through all that trouble just to watch a movie saps all the energy out of you so you end up staying on your iPod, listening to a playlist you’ve heard over a million times.

Getting the EeePC also has two more marks in the plus side of the paper because of two points: 1.) You can customise the hardware of the EeePC, adding a touch screen or embedding more hard drive space and a USB modem into the tiny, tiny packaging, and 2.) It comes with Linux. Now I know those two points may not appeal to everyone, but that little computer embodies two things I’ve wanted to get into for a long time. Working on actual hardware, and learning how to use Linux. =D

So to sum up the post, I should totally buy an EeePC because

1. Its ultra portable.
2. Its hardware is easily customisable.
3. You get to learn Linux! (If you want to. The EeePC can also come with Windows XP, if that’s what you’re more comfortable with.)

Sure, call me a geek. But at least I’ll be a geek with an ultra mobile pc. A cool ultra mobile pc.