Sep 23 2008
A well earned break
This week I am spending a week at our local Centre Parcs with Anita, Lily and some friends. Its pleasant here and you get a real feel for the countryside and wildlife.
Its amazing really as its only a short drive from our home and practically on the doorstep yet it feels like a world apart from the busy towns.
Things have changed a lot here in recent months, all executive villas now receive WiFi, albeit not at the fastest connections speeds but adequate for firing a blog or two off and reading my many feeds;
Also the speed has been fairly consistent, unlike the speeds the jkontherun guys have experienced at the recent mobilize conference. I would try the mobile data speeds but there isn’t much point as currently my T-Mobile signal only gives GPRS data connectivity.
What has been a real winner here is the newest addition to my gadget bag, my Asus EEE 1000H.
It added very little size or weight to the luggage which was already greatly increased due to all the many additional baby items needed on this sort of trip and has been used more by my wife than it has by me.
What is impressive about the Asus is the power adaptor, I know on my brothers original EEE 701 the power brick is included on the actual plug and even though with this incarnation of the EEE range, the brick is a separate entity on the power cable, its still tiny compared with many laptop power adaptors. Here’s 
a comparison of my MDA Compact IV, the EEE adaptor and Simon’s normal laptop adaptor;
Another bonus for me is the SD card slot of the EEE, my Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 takes SDHC cards so getting photos off the card is a very simple cableless operation, which also means less clutter for the gadget bag.
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