Back in April of 2008 I went on a vacation and took my 15″ Acer laptop along. After the flight and ride to the hotel, I opened up my laptop only to discover that it would not boot properly. To make a long story short, I did manage to get it working long enough to get my important files transferred and then it would no longer boot up all the way. Because of the errors I was receiving, I determined that sometime during the trip the Hard Drive had been damaged. Since I had owned the laptop for a while, I decided that I would not fix it and set out to buy something new.

I started looking for a laptop, but I had a limited budget to work with. Since I had a desktop computer at home, I started to think about what I needed in a laptop. Surf the internet, use Gmail, Text Editor, Spreadsheets and that’s about it. No graphic design, no website building - I determined that I just needed a small, inexpensive laptop to keep in touch when I’m on the go.