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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
That will be true for a lot of people, but I have a (large and heavy) work laptop which I have to carry around all the time both in town and when traveling. About all I have room for in addition to other gear and papers is a netbook. Even then it's pushing it a bit, but still worth it. Anything bigger or heavier is just not practical for me. And, similarly, the advantage of not having an A/C adapter in the bag is significant as well, because I've generally already filled all the nooks and crannies.
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I am in a similar situation with one of my work laptops and when I am taking that one anywhere then I would tend to avoid taking any intermediate device, I can play media files on that one and then have my ebook reader for books since it takes up so little space.
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
(And in the future I may return to the small laptop form factor for work. It doesn't perform as well, but it's sure a lot easier to carry around every day. But every generation the small laptops are more capable, so I might be satisfied with the tradeoff next time around. Plus, it would give me a lot more room for a second device.)
It's so hard picking the perfect devices with so many constraints, isn't it!?
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Luckily for me I have managed to get a second laptop out of my work and it is a much smaller x200s thinkpad (sadly not the tablet model
) and I am finding that gives me pretty much all the benefits of a netbook with the only real compromise on the larger laptop is the gfx card and I just don't play pc games nowadays anyway.