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Originally Posted by toryglen-boy
i use an Acer Aspire One when "out in the field" it has an 8.9" screen, although i have updated it, and put 1.5Gb or DDR, and a 320Gb drive in there, it has a battery life of about 6 hours, and easily weighs less than 1Kg. Its too small for an optical drive, but i have a 16Gb SDCARD in there, that kinda acts as a removeable drive, and its easy to port stuff over. Its about the size of an A5 piece of paper ... and invaluable.
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Here's my eeePC - it runs PHD and CCDsoft for data aquisition. I'd still like a separate external unit connected to a large monitor for display work though. And yes, while the Aspire is a nice little unit, I'd rather something with a 20" (at least) screen. I don't think that this is a debate over wheter laptops or small footprint PC's are better in the field, it's over whether really small PCs are useful in the field - period. I think they may be.