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When I first started thinking about this trip I planned on bringing a laptop, and then the more advice on travel blogs I read, the more I was put off. It’s true, laptops take up precious space and weight in your backpack, you have to carry them around with you everywhere or live with the fear of someone stealing it if you decide to take the risk of leaving it in your room.

But then you have the advantages of being able to back up your photos, not have to rely on the ancient pcs, buggy software and keyboards that refuse to type what you want in internet cafes, watch a film on the plane or when you’re culturally overloaded and just want to stay in your room…

I’d really like to keep freelancing while I’m on the road and while this is probably possible in internet cafes, it would definitely be a lot easier to work from my own laptop. And then I discovered the Asus Eee PC. I first saw these in the airport on the way out to Japan and they were so tiny and light (and in a range of cute colours!), I was tempted to get one there and then. Of course the screen resolution is pretty low and they only come with a small amount of disk space but for around £200 and weighing less than 1kg, who cares?

I am very very very tempted but I’m scrimping and saving as much as I can at the moment and still not sure if the hassle of bringing a laptop (even a teeny tiny light one) is worth it… So I think my plan will be to wait until my trip is imminent, hope the price for the better models comes down a bit, see how much money I’ve managed to save and if I can spare any of it to buy toys when it would cover my living expenses for a month in Asia. Oh, but I want one!

money money money… on that note I’d better get back to my ebaying and freelancing

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