In the Qantas Club (business lounge at an Australian Airport :)) I spent a couple of hours working and while taking regular trips to the snack bar I spied on the tech people were using, as I always do.
I saw lots of standard (read as boring) laptops, all PC's, a big mix, Dell's Compaq's, HP, Sony.
Only two Mac's in the whole place (Macbooks) and no Tablets!
Later in the evening a Japanese man walked past carrying a Panasonic T series (light, tough Japanese notebook, big screen and only 1KG) - awesome. He was carrying it on, in one hand and reading the screen, try doing that with a 2.5kg clunker. My wife has a Panasonic R3 and it's a great, fast 900 gram machine so I appreciated seeing a Pana in the wild as they're not available in Australia.
An hour later another Japanese man walked past with an older Subbie, a Vaio 505 and one guy had a Libretto U100, which he was using on the table with a mini USB mouse. But alas I had the only tablet in the place (P1610). After sending an email as a laptop I converted and surfed the web in tablet mode and that's when the looks started. The libretto gets a lot of "how cute, can you really work on that thing?", but the tablet actually gets looks, comments and questions because people are intrigued by the way you're working; "you can write on the screen?!"
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The Panasonic T series seems to be a good choice. Laptops should be lightweight and easy to carry. You might be interested to know about the Young Entrepreneur Society from the www.YoungEntrepreneurSociety.com many interesting reads from the site.
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