Leeanne finally got tired of screwing around with our second desktop pc.  The thing is years and years old, and has never really seen maintenance.  I wanted to format it and start over, but she had too much stuff saved to it and wouldn't let me.  It's so slow that she barely gets around to posting her blog, which bothers her quite a lot.

Enter the EEE pc netbook.  We got it at Best Buy for about $260 after tax, and boy is it tiny.  I think she likes that, so I don't try to put my ape-sized paws all over it.  Seriously, I can barely type on the damned thing.

But it sports a 160gb hard drive, which should make up for the lack of cd, floppy, or any other damned thing.  It's a really bare bones internet machine work-type of device, but she can use it anywhere in the house, thanks to our wireless network.  Since I have most of our files shared on the network, she can transfer her settings, favorites, and files from the second desktop, and she can even copy some of the ripped movies and music to her machine and use it as a portable media player on the road trip next week. 

This also will give me the opportunity to format the desktop, and see if I can make a school computer out of it for Nikki, and finally she can quit pretending she uses the thinkpad, and I can see how well it likes Linux.  Talk about a piece of crap, that laptop.  Altogether too old.

At any rate, it's good for what she does, and all the heavy lifting computer stuff, I end up doing anyway, so good for us, right?