It is All Relative: Eee PC Touch Screen Netbook Sitting on a 17-inch MacBook Pro

Two things about the Asus Eee PC T91MT touchscreen netbook made me hesitate before clicking on the web “buy” button. The first issue was its small 30GB solid state drive (SSD). I wrote about how I am dealing with this constraint in this blog entry…

Recovering Free Space on the Eee PC T91MT’s 30GB SSD: Touch Screen is Great, Small Drive is Not

The second issue is the T91MT’s 9-inch display instead of the more standard (today) 10.1-inch display. This meant that the T91MT would have a smaller keyboard that I’ve been using for well over a year now on my 10.1-inch netbooks.

But, how “small is small” when talking about a netbook with a 9-inch display? When I saw a co-worker’s 17-inch MacBook Pro, I knew the picture I wanted to tell this story. You can see my Asus T91MT sitting on the 17-inch MacBook Pro in the photo above. These are the two extremes of netbooks/notebooks at the moment. The T91MT may be too small for some people’s preferences. But, for me any 17-inch notebook is too big and definitely not something I would consider buying for myself.

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