A COMPUTER OF HER OWN

This summer I do not get a long vaca but rather a series of short weekend trips–and I was up to my neck in Sheetrock this weekend for Phase II of our San Antonio home: second bath. Third bedroom and laundry. (Details as soon as photos are in.) But I have a dilemma: I need a laptop. If I had a laptop I could be productive en route, while away from home, I could basically join the millions of others in this century who have become mobile employees, taking work on the road, traveling for business, enjoying productivity, telecommuting, saving forests and landfills. Yes sirree, all I need is a simple laptop.

But here’s the problem: I am not the most computer savvy. So when I get a new computer, I am indebted to my spouse (who is so computer savvy he actually takes them apart…hard wiring and all) to help me get it set up. Then he adds all these extra “things” to the computer, and pretty soon I find him playing solitaire on my computer. Oh wait, now it’s OUR computer.

And then, I HAVE TO HAVE A MOUSE. I cannot work with those tap-touch-y things on the laptop. I have deleted entire blocks of text into the stratosphere. Besides, haven’t these engineers ever heard of fingernails? There must be a thousand nail salons in Silicon Valley.

And I like a large screen. I guess the ideal would be to have a valet pre-visit everywhere I land and set up a duplicate of my screen, keyboard and precious CPU–see, I at least know what that means.

The perfect laptop would have a fold-out computer screen, be lightweight, as stylish as an Apple (which I would buy for aesthetics alone if I were a Mac person) and come with a mouse that I could store inside the laptop when not in use.

So I enter a plea to our blog readers, please advise. Who says all laptops must be black or silver? Why not purple? Computer designers out there, e-mail me your thoughts, and yes, I am quite open to testing. And offering my savory advice. If I can figure it out, a 3-year-old can figure it out.

Which reminds me of my next entry: Starbucks.