Originally Posted by
suzshe
Thanks, I really appreciate the quick response. Your replies confirmed my fears regarding the the T30 - its probably just a little too old. The Asus Eee is very appealing because of the weight but tonight my husband said he would really like to watch DVDs and maybe store music and pics (there goes the 2 lbs). He is even less technical than I. He expressed interest in the new MacBook Air but gulped when I said prepared to spend $1800.
Sorry to bother you, I will have to do a little more research.
It's perfectly possible to store movies on the EEE PC. If you use a program on your desktop to "rip" DVD's and compress them, then your average movie shrinks to around 300Mb. Invest $29 in a 4Gb SD card and hey presto; you can bring 10 movies along with you on the EEE PC.
If you need more storage space, but with the same size as the EEE PC, then the Everex Cloudbook may be of some interest to you;
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=8245470
At $399 is is the same price, but comes with a 30Gb hard drive instead of the 4Gb flash in the EEE. That said; the Cloudbook does have some disadvantages, most notably the weird position of the trackpad.