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Right. As you are all well aware and probably bored of now I'm off to fight the 8 legged hordes in the outback in couple of weeks. My old IBM is dead (and was about 2/3rd of my baggage allowence anyway...)
After a laptop to go in to the out back with me. Mostly for music / film / ebooks while on downtime, pref something with either a massive battery life / low power usage or cheap spare battery - as I imagine I'll be able to charge it during the day but it wont be able to have a constant power supply.
Pref not weighing 6 tons either as weight allowances may be tight.
PC rather than Mac please.
If it happened to be powerful enough to play BF3 when it comes out so much the better but im not really looking to spend $6.8million...
Ta.
For films and entertainment I bought an HP HDX 18 - great sound and huge screen for films, but really not particularly heavy. Dunno if they make them any more tho.
I would get an ereader for ebooks and music and a portable DVD player for movies.
Somthing like this:
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/19977203/Archos-70-4GB-Wifi-Colour-Touchscreen-Android-eReader/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518|cat:19977203|prd:19977203
it would seem that a netbook or tablet would meet your requirements. Both light, less powerful (but nothing on there seems to need much power). might be worth considering storage size, and if you want to read e-books, get a kindle\sony reader or whatever, your eyes will thank you
Well im not going to be able to carry masses of dvd's so I was thinking something that I could store as vast amount of entertainment on before I went.
I really want a one laptop solution so I can use it for emailing home, some work if necessary and doing photography on - oly basic - I doubt i'll be shooting gigs/ sporting events for a while so won't need photoshop etc.
netbook would fill all those criteria, you'd just have to either take a 2nd external hard drive, or fit a new hard drive to it (they're mostly 2.5" drives, so 1tb (which is approximately 1,400 700meg dvd rips) is about £65.
the screen is kinda small on them, but they win easily on cost, battery longevity (my gf's netbook has a 6 cell battery and ~10 hour life) and cost (should be around £200).