I'll be on the road for 3-4 months later this year and I don't want to take my my shiny 5 month old Lenovo with me.
I'm looking for something cheap that I would be ok with in case it broke or got stolen while on my travels. I will be using it mostly to check emails and manage flight and hotel bookings. My preference is for a laptop over a tab because they are somewhat cheaper, have usb and card readers, I like the feel of a proper keyboard and I need something with hdd with 250-500gb for storing images I take along the way.
I was looking at used netbooks online, at around 700-1000hkd (4-5year old) there are some availabe with 11-13'' screens 2gb ram 1.6 or 1.8ghz processors. I'm not an expert but those sound like pretty decent spes to me, especially for the price. I don't know if they are equivalent to desktop specs but our backup desktop at home has the same numbers and I'm fine with it for emails, browsing, watching movies and light photoshop elements work.
The netbooks I've seen usually come with 160gb or 320gb drives but I plan on getting a 500gb so I won't need to carry around an extra external drive which would only add to all the things I need to keep track of.
It's just a preliminary search I've done over the last two days but this sort of thing seems to make sense to me. I can replace the 160gb or 250gb hdd that comes with one of these and get a 500gb I don't know if anyone can recommend other options for something locally available preferably around 2k or less.