I know I have this wonderful and totally awesome Thinkpad and I absolutely do love it, but, I’ve become obsessed with mini netbooks in the last year or so. I really, really want one. Two of my online friends have gotten them and just loved them! And let me tell you, did I get jealous when I saw them just slip them easily in their purse and jump up ready to go! Meantime, I’m over there making sure my bulky laptop is tightly secured in its bag, throwing my purse and the heavy laptop bag over my shoulder, stiffening up my shoulder ….grunting …and then and only then am I ready to go!

I was at conferences with both of these ladies and wow! How much easier did they have it when it was time to sit in the conference room, sit down and pop out their mini netbooks – ready to tweet, blog, take notes and whatever else… And there was bulky old me over there (hey! I resemble that!) finding a place for my purse, working my laptop carefully out of its bag, finding a place on the floor for the bag, opening up the laptop and waiting for it to turn on. Again, meantime – they’d written half a blog post about the rockin’ cool speaker we were listening to! Argh!

See what I mean here? Not that I’m at conferences all that often, really. Maybe a few times a year, if I’m lucky. I’m sure, though, that there would be other instances in which a mini would come in handy! You know there would be!

I go back and forth over which brand I want to put on my mental wishlist, so today I was checking out Dell computers and I found the Inspiron Mini 10. That thing looks really cool. It’s interesting how when you open it, the top and the bottom parts are not flush with each other. Makes it a bit ‘space-agey’. Maybe if I found some good Dell coupons and promos , I could even talk someone into getting it for me. Like a certain contractor dude who lives with me!

We were gonna get my desktop repaired, maybe I’ll just opt to get one of these instead. Hmm… And maybe I can sweeten the deal by showing him the Home Depot coupons at Savings . Whaddya think?

It might just work!

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