Hello all,
Here in the UK we have been having some absolutely gorgeous weather recently, and I have been spending much more time outside!
Furthermore, I will be going into my final year of uni this August and am looking to use my student discount one more time, and potentially get a free ipod for my mother too!
I already have my wonderful mac pro for any 'proper' work I need to do, however my room next year potentially has a balcony, and I can see myself doing most of my papers (till it gets cold!) outside on some sort of sun-lounger type thing.
I am therefore looking for a new laptop that is reasonably priced, fine to use outside pretty much exclusively for word processing, some light internet and some light itunes.
I have been looking at the air, but it seems that i'd really want the ssd version which is right out of my budget; the unibody macbook (£850), however I am concerned about glare problems if I were to turn the screen down for 'natural sun frontlighting!'; and the white macbook (£690), although the heat of this laptop concerns me a little.
2 important points:
1. I have never particularly liked glossy screens before, but it seems that they are all that are available these days, so what would be the best option for working outside?
2. The heat of the laptops is very important: I need something that is cool on my man bits. Previously I have had a mbp which was too hot, a powerbook 12" which was again too hot, and have used my sister's 1st gen whitebook, which was too hot also. My ibook G3 is cool enough, however I will be using online journals next year that it can't handle, so an upgrade is required!
Finally, I am open to windows and mac solutions. I haven't had a windows computer since windows 98, but am willing to use one if it is the only solution to the screen/heat issues. Any advice about the windows/mac thing would be appreciated, however please don't start flaming or anything like that.
Oh, and I have considered netbooks, but I am yet to find one that i can actually type comfortably on, and as the machine will be used to type up to 10 000 words a week, this is pretty important.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Student_trap
Here in the UK we have been having some absolutely gorgeous weather recently, and I have been spending much more time outside!
Furthermore, I will be going into my final year of uni this August and am looking to use my student discount one more time, and potentially get a free ipod for my mother too!
I already have my wonderful mac pro for any 'proper' work I need to do, however my room next year potentially has a balcony, and I can see myself doing most of my papers (till it gets cold!) outside on some sort of sun-lounger type thing.
I am therefore looking for a new laptop that is reasonably priced, fine to use outside pretty much exclusively for word processing, some light internet and some light itunes.
I have been looking at the air, but it seems that i'd really want the ssd version which is right out of my budget; the unibody macbook (£850), however I am concerned about glare problems if I were to turn the screen down for 'natural sun frontlighting!'; and the white macbook (£690), although the heat of this laptop concerns me a little.
2 important points:
1. I have never particularly liked glossy screens before, but it seems that they are all that are available these days, so what would be the best option for working outside?
2. The heat of the laptops is very important: I need something that is cool on my man bits. Previously I have had a mbp which was too hot, a powerbook 12" which was again too hot, and have used my sister's 1st gen whitebook, which was too hot also. My ibook G3 is cool enough, however I will be using online journals next year that it can't handle, so an upgrade is required!
Finally, I am open to windows and mac solutions. I haven't had a windows computer since windows 98, but am willing to use one if it is the only solution to the screen/heat issues. Any advice about the windows/mac thing would be appreciated, however please don't start flaming or anything like that.
Oh, and I have considered netbooks, but I am yet to find one that i can actually type comfortably on, and as the machine will be used to type up to 10 000 words a week, this is pretty important.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Student_trap