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You loved your computer. You chose it for its wide screen (practical for good quality DVDs and business presentations). You appreciated its nice keyboard and its performances. Then you started carrying it around for meetings. Suddenly the wide screen didn’t sound that much fun anymore. The mere mention of leaving home or work with that monstrous and heavy device put you in tears. You dreaded crowds in the underground, long queues and missing groceries. You tried every trick in the book: you charged it all night so you wouldn’t have to carry the battery around, you suggested your colleagues to take their own laptop for the presentations, and you accidentally “forgot” to charge it so someone else would have to take his. Finally you came back to the good old pen and notepad, getting the transcripts done late in the night just to avoid facing “that” thing.
Then your life changed. You discovered the magic of subnotebooks and ultraportables. You’re now way past wide screen. After all you like watching movies on the barely-there screen of your iPod so the change wasn’t too hard.

You are so grateful for the change that you’re actually smiling when you leave home. Your laptop is always in your bag. With the Asus Eee PC you don’t even need a special bag. If your handbag isn’t too small it’s usually enough to carry the laptop, its battery, your agenda, a mobile phone, your lipstick and the rest of your things. Seriously. I’ve got one and sometimes I just forget it’s in my bag.

But what I like most about these laptops is their new look. We don’t have to stare at ugly dark plastic anymore. I mean… just take a look at the MacBook Air and the Vaio line! They’re absolutely breath-taking with smooth lines and iridescent colors. I now they’re just computers when they are such a big part of your personal and professional life it seems pretty important to me.