A tad late to the party.
Some may think it's pretty amazing for me to have gone as long as I have without owning a laptop. Especially with my work, lifestyle etc. But honestly being as mobile as I am, laptops were just too big and cumbersome. Essentially i felt they were a pain to haul around. I have borrowed laptops from work for business trips and conferences but they sat in the hotel room as a regular desktop might have. I have a smart phone and that was enough to keep me up to date on email, twitter and minor web research. I quite honestly had no desire for anything else. That was until about a year ago when Asus released their Eee line of ultra portable laptops. The concept intrigued the daylights out of me. And apparently the whole computer industry (everyone offers a "netbook" these days.) It's efficient, bare bones, cheap and most importantly tiny. As I read and heard personal experiences with it and along with the paradigm shift I had been experiencing to the "cloud," this concept was really starting to make sense to me. I really needed to get my hands on one and see if it truly was that perfect vision of what I had been creating in my head.
