This year for Christmas, I am hoping Santa will consider wireless notebooks. I’m on our desktop computer a lot for school & work, leaving very little time for my wife to get online and do what she needs to do. This causes some tension, therefore the obvious answer is to get another computer. Though we don’t really desire to own two computers, this is the best solution. I will be getting a notebook so that I can work anywhere at any time if I need to do so, and my wife can use our desktop for what she has to do, and she won’t have to wait for me to take a break or finish up my work for the day. According to PC Magazine, adding a laptop to an existing broadband internet connection via a router is a typical home wireless networking scenario.
I often travel, so wireless notebooks that can pick up access to the Internet via hotspots is ideal, though it will depend on what type of laptop I buy and how much we can afford to spend. Though it is a tax deduction because I will use it mostly for my business, I still have to stick to a budget to get it. I’m not sure if typing on wireless notebooks is going to be good for my hands, so I might have to get some voice recognition software to help me with my work. I don’t know how well it works, but I guess we will soon find out.
I have found that wireless notebooks range in price so much that I don’t know what to buy. I know there are features I need, but I don’t know if I can afford them all. I need a CD burner to save my work, but that definitely ups the price of the wireless notebooks that I have been looking through. I also have to have a good amount of hard disk space for photographs. I take a lot of pictures and I need to have somewhere to keep them.
I also hope that wireless notebooks will be something you can travel with. I am planning a vacation overseas next year, and I would very much like to take the one I get with me. I take a lot of pictures, and I’d like to have my notebook with me to store them. My camera, even with a good memory stick, only holds so many pictures. Wireless notebooks are good for communications via email as well, and it will be a great way to keep in touch with my parents while I am gone.