Thoughts on the Mini

I got my Dell Inspiron Mini 9 last week. I'm mostly impressed with the little machine. Typing is a little more difficult on it than I'd hoped it to be, mostly because the apostrophe/quote key is in an awkward spot... It's down on the bottom row, two keys right of the space rather than being to the left of enter, so I keep hitting the enter key whenever I mean apostrophe or quote, which is fine enough when typing a blog entry but is massively annoying with IM because I now have the misfortune of hitting send on a message before I'm done with it. I'm sure it's an annoyance that will eventually be overcome with time and more usage.

One of the things I really do like about it is it's a great size for lying in bed and just surfing around the Internet. If you've got your knees propped up and you lean the laptop up against them, it just seems to fit perfectly.... unlike fullsized laptops where they always felt too cumbersome and heavy to hold in the same position AND still be able to type. The fact that I can use the computer LYING DOWN seems to overcome some of my annoyances with the keyboard... and in fact,I think lying down is the most comfortable way to type using the keyboard on it, I know when I'm sitting up, my wrists feel really smooshed, but lying down they don't because I can rest them against my hips.

It would seem that the Mini is likely going to be my bedroom/traveling computer.