Tiny Goodness
Now that I’ve had my Fujitsu P1120 for a while now, I have to say, I still LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I fell in love w/ it when I first got it, well, before I got it I fell in love w/ it. But having it is just beyond words wonderful. I have no life, I know. But this laptop is just too cute. It’s so small and light I take it literally everywhere I go. People come up to me in cafes and ask “Is that a real computer?” I tell them yes, it’s a full computer running full Windows XP. People have me write down the model number so that they can look into buying one (my sushi chef bought one after seeing mine). You get over the tiny keyboard so fast it’s hardly a drawback. It’s about 2 pounds, even w/ the extended-life battery. It has built-in WiFi and a touchscreen. The only thing that would make this better would be if it had built-in bluetooth and was a tiny bit faster. If I were rich, I’d buy a second one, and maybe even a third one, and leave it unpacked, and put away for when this one gets old.
I always thought that as a laptops got old and things broke you could just replace parts. But I have this huge Gateway laptop w/ a screen larger than a 17″ monitor’s screen, and it’s great (but dog-heavy!). As it aged, things broke, but they could not be replaced. The battery died. I ordered a new battery, and within a week, the battery was dead. The floppy drive died, and so I ordered a new one, and within a few weeks that drive was dead, too. So, replacing parts is obviously not a solution.
So, when my P1120 gets old and starts to die, what will I do? Technology gets better and better but that doesn’t mean that what you want will be available. The general public may decide that tiny laptops aren’t worth the trouble, and companies worried about the bottom line may stop making them, but lil’ ol’ me will still want one. I swear, if I get one more big sale in my business, I may buy another one and put away for later. I really do love this laptop that much.