[RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only

[Indigo]

Yeah, too much money.
I already have fast enough desktops, don't want a notebook computer too 
powerful, just for writing blogs.
I think it's wiser to look for a used notebook, and replace its hard 
drive with a small SSD.
Thanks,
Indi

On 9/26/2013 6:15 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know also no Ultrabook with a numpad smaller than 15". The UX51VZ has it,
> but approx.. 2.600-2.000 EUR...
>
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> --
> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Perdue
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:31 AM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only
>
> 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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