How about the MacBook Air?… It is some 1300 grams (but indeed more expensive).
Best regards: OK On 19 avr. 08, at 11:42, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Dear all, > > maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my > experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!). > Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on > the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to > schlepp it almost every day, a normal laptop seems pretty heavy after > a while, that's why I got me one of those eeepc thingies. Its tiny > screen and small keyboard scream "I'm just a mobile device, not a > replacement for a real computer," and it's not the fastest machine > around. However, my joy is great whenever I stuff the little thing in > my bag and lift it. > > I got the 8GB variant. To do work, I always want all my documents with > me (so I can easily sync my entire Documents directory between work, > home, and laptop) and, of course, my TeX installation. My texlive- > texmf tree now is 1.6 G, so I needed a bit more space than the 4G > model offers (models with larger screens and hard disks will be > available soonish). It has a SDHC card reader, so I copied my > Documents and the TeX installation to the internal disk (a SSD) and > have my linux installation on a card from which I boot. With a shell > script, I set the $PATH so I can mount the internal disk and run > ConTeXt off of it. Everything works wonderfully. As I said, it's a > slow machine, so you don't want to compile very long documents too > often, but it does run every flavor of ConTeXt. I often prepare my > presentations on the train, and this works great: I have the > environment to which I'm used for editing the source files (emacs + > ConTeXt) and a pdf viewer open in another workspace. This setup is one > of the reasons why I prefer a texlive installation to a minimal > ConTeXt tree: that way, I have to maintain it only once and can sync > it between my computers. So whoever has to travel a lot: I find it > wonderful to have such a small and light computer on the road. > > All best, have a nice weekend > > Thomas > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
