Notebooks...
Posted By: TechSupport on 2009-02-15
In Reply to: Acer notebooks - anyone? - Amanda Howard
Basically, you've already said it: Notebooks are great to take to college due to their small size, but for the same reason they don't make very good transcription workstations. It depends on which purpose you value more, and also whether you can only afford one or the other.
If you can afford both a notebook and laptop, that would obviously be ideal, using each for different purposes.
However, if you can only afford one, I'd go with the laptop because they're still quite transportable (for college), and yet will permit you to work comfortably for hours at a time. (If the extra 5 pounds or so is more than you want to carry, a rolling carrier that can haul your laptop as well as a backpack or bookbag can be purchased cheaply at Walmart. Or, you can get a rolling backpack and sling your laptop case onto the handle once it's extended.)
You can prolly recover most of your investment in the notebook if it's still in new condition. Just put an ad on the campus bulletin board, sell it, and get the laptop instead.
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Acer notebooks - anyone?
I just bought an Acer notebook from Walmart. Anyone have experience with this they can share?
I know they are not much good for transcribing (too small), but I also go to college and seeing as they only weigh 1 pound, I thought it might be good to have.
Do you think I wasted my money? Should I have spent the extra $200 and got a real laptop?
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