[RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only

[Patrick Perdue]

I doubt you'll find anything smaller than a 15-inch notebook with a 
numpad. I used to have an Acer Aspire 1 netbook, which had a boring 8GB 
SSD, 8.9 inch screen. The keyboard wasn't so great, and it definitely 
didn't have a numpad, though it did have the virtual numpad which is now 
also getting pretty hard to find in laptop keyboards. You could go the 
way of a Windows 8 tablet, like the Acer iconia i3w and a bluetooth 
keyboard (USB if you have a micro to standard USB adapter,) though it 
isn't all that easy to find a bluetooth keyboard with a numpad, either. 
Most are separate numpads that happen to come with the keyboard, and 
some of them are completely useless for us, as every button press turns 
numlock on, presses the key you requested, then turns numlock off again.
Or, just find an older, reasonably quiet laptop and replace it's hard 
drive with a cheap SSD. I bought an OCZ Onyx a few years ago for my 
netbook, which I have now given to my father. It was the smallest, 
slowest, cheapest thing I could find at the time, a 32GB thing rated at 
85MB/sec read, 75MB/sec write, and it runs Windows 7 pretty good for an 
Atom 270 netbook. The fan comes on occasionally, but you'll have that.

On 9/25/2013 1:21 PM, Indigo wrote:
> Is there a simple notebook with a comfortable keyboard, that has a small
> flash drive instead of a whirring hard drive; and hopefully long battery
> life?
> I once had a miserable little notebook with a puny Atom processer, that
> definitely had a whirring hard drive, and got really hot at the bottom,
> even though it was a pathetically underpowered thing.
> This time I'd like to try for one that could run some version of windows
> that would support NVDA and Eloquence, but I don't care about going
> online with it, or making music with it, just writing about music, life,
> whatever, maybe blogging.
> I don't mind transferring files to another computer afterwards if the
> word processing notebook is hassle free, totally quiet and cool running.
>
> I don't want a mobile device with touch screen.
> I currently use small slim short stroke Logitech keyboards that I find
> comfortable, not the gigantic keyboards of the past, but definitely not
> the ultra-cramped keyboards on some laptops either; where all keys have
> equal spacing.
> I like a little space between F4 and F5, for instance, and a little
> seperation between the arrow keys and the qwerty block of keys, and need
> a numberPad separate from the qwerty keys
> Is there such a creature these days?
> Thanks for any tips,
> Indi
>
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