Last fall I bought an Acer c720 Chromebook and fell in love with it. Two days later, when visiting the in-laws, my sister in law had her windows PC die from bad hard disk. I lent her the book, trying to be a good person, and soon afterwards started missing the quick booting bastard. So at $200 I went out and bought myself another. Six months later she finally got around to returning the Chromebook and now I was up to two of the devices.

Aside from the lack up internet access, which is a problem on a windows PC as well, the Chromebook has been my little travel friend where I do most of my first draft writing. Revision stuff (spell checking etc) is not as easy to do on a Chromebook without a connection online but again for first draft writing that’s okay.

A couple of weeks ago I heard about the ASUS x205 which is Microsoft’s answer to the Chromebook. It should be released within the next few weeks and at $200 I will of course be buying one, unless of course if the reviews totally suck on it. I will try to be as objective as I can be as I put it through the paces.