commercial real estate

I was a big laptop hater. They struck me as ungainly, ugly, and impractical to lug around to coffee shops, on vacation, and so forth. I was scared to death of dropping them and losing my $2k investment. I’ve killed enough mobile phones that way.

Then along came the Asus Eee. This sucker costs as little as $300 and is small as a hardback book.

It has wireless internet built in along with a web browser. It doesn’t come with Windows, but it can be installed, and frankly I don’t need it for my work as a commercial real estate broker. I can log remotely into my office computer with software that is pre-installed on the computer and access Outlook (and Argus and the Office Suite and anything else our company hosts on the remote terminal for that matter). It is also preloaded with OpenOffice, which has opened all the MSOffice documents I’ve worked with so far.

Naysayers argue you can get a “full sized” laptop for $400. They are missing the point. It’s so small that you can use it on a coach class tray table (I did already), and it’s great for kids. Women could carry it in a clutch. Not that I’m looking for attention but if you are this is for you: more than one person has come up to me saying, “your laptop is so small.”