So in all probability instead of repairing the old one I have to buy new laptop. Today I talked with one Spanish guy who lives on the upper floor in my guesthouse, he recommended to buy light netbook like his Acer Aspire One and buy external DVD-Rom and hard drive. He says it's best for traveler like me and there is not so huge difference between usual laptop and netbook, anyway I am not burning DVDs or watching movies every day. What do you think is it good idea?
Normally I do not read such staff but recently especially after reading Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty and several works on Al Qaeda and Pakistan I became interested and these two books seem to provide good theoretical background to issues of international terrorism and development.
Getting 15TB inside a football twenty years ago would indeed have been colossal. :)
However, double check whether you need a hard drive - fewer moving parts normally means fewer ways for things to go wrong, after all, and USB flash drives are available in GB+ sizes. A netbook, large enough capacity USB flash drive (large enough to back all the critical files in the netbook, that is), and USB DVD drive and you can keep the DVD drive in a padded case except when you are actually using it. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
I did not see pendrives of good capacity yet, maximum of 32 GB.
and you need more than 32 Gb for what reason? do you have to carry your entire film collection round with you everywhere? for almost any use 32 Gb is more than enough, and the USB stick is something that'll fit in a pocket so wont add to luggage weight, wont involve extra cables, dosnt have motors in to drain battery time, and for the price of a 32 Gb, you could instead get 3 16 Gb sticks, little less high tech, but does the job just as well. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
seriously speaking i am very grateful to computer industry for minimizing everything because i am always on the move (I am planning to trek around Annapurna in Nepal the whole march).
