Still a good machine to work on. Showed it to my physio who was very happy with the way the screen folds back – don’t have to hold your neck at an unnatural angle as much as some bigger notebooks he’s seen.
Used it on my recent trip to Townsville – I think though that if you have neck and back problems (like I do) you have to be careful not to hurt your back with poor posture (although, it’s great for laying back in an armchair while you type away, that’s not something that clients tend to like!).
The machine was great to work on and fine for giving a Powerpoint presentation. Don’t expect to play Age of Conan on it – a graphically demanding game. In fact, don’t expect to pay pretty much any game out in the past three years, particularly if you stick with Vista (as I have done so far).
You get much better battery life if you turn off the wireless – about an hour and a half I felt. You can get better battery life too if you switch it to the ‘power saver’ mode – but if you do that, expect to feel jealous of people with an abacus nearby. It is probably a good idea if you load up your required program, and then turn on power saver. Seriously – I was copying about 100MB to my USB stick and it was scheduled for 15 minutes. I upped the power to high performance – et voila, 3 minutes.
A seriously good machine that I can use, with a decent hard drive on it and a great little screen. I need to be better with posture though when using it (incidentally, I think the 6-cell battery would be bad for ergonomics, not good, since it raises it up at the back which will throw your neck out something shocking).
Screen is still no good in daylight.
As for problems – still none after several weeks use. It was good to work on on the plane (brilliant in fact) and plenty of grunt for doing work (unless you’re into graphically intensive stuff, who needs that kind of power – maybe if you had a large spreadsheet it would be a problem). It’s great to type on. I did five hours of interviews using it and it was very usable (again, watch the posture, probably my main beef so far). I even installed it on my 22" monitor and the speed was perfectly adequate.
I just won’t try to play Age of Conan on it,
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