Netbooks

[fearmeforiampink]

Am considering getting myself a netbook/similar at some point in the next few months, as while my current laptop is lovely, and I love the ability to lean back in a comfy chair with a powerful and large screened computer, I'd also like one I can take everywhere without noticing, for taking it to gaming nights and so forth.

Stuff I'm after, in no particular order

• Cheap. Doesn't have to be high spec, I want something that doesn't set me back too much


• Light. Being utterly tiny isn't so much a thing, as my bags are reasonably large, but I don't want too much weight


• Decent for reading PDFs from, as this will be one of its major roles


• Viable for dealing with email on (though doesn't have to be great for writing long long replies)


• Tough. This is fairly high priority, as I can be rather hard on my possessions

Tablet could work as long as it's not too expensive. Would consider an iPad, but the lack of true multitasking for swapping between character sheet and PDF would be annoying, and I don't need the apps.

So, what would people suggest?

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

You must have a big collection! I've just checked the size of mine and it came to somewhat over 17gb. That includes (for example) pretty much everything ever published for Traveller between 1977 and 1995.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Having said that, I did go for the 64gb iPad rather than a smaller one.

[fearmeforiampink]

Aye, my collection is fairly huge. It could fit onto 64 gigs (possibly with some leaving unneccessary stuff out), but it'd then be taking up most of that. At which point having music or movies or a few low spec games on there is less viable.

Essentially, I'm looking at tablets versus netbooks. Sure, tablets have the 'ooh shiny' factor, but beyond that, I don't really need their other features (sometimes larger screens, quick startups, etc).

And for less than a 64 gig tablet would cost, I can get a netbook with 100+ gigs, and the side benefit of a keyboard.