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A mate of mine is going to take me to task for saying this (!!) but the problem with dedicated Mac users is they're restricting their choice for some excellent machines at very keen prices. OK, you get what you pay for, but you can't always get what you want running Mac.
I ran an Asus EeePC and it was a superb machine. Linux OS as standard, but I'd loaded Windows, although only to get access to total mobility with a mobile dongle, otherwise pretty well all the Windows stuff would run on Linux anyway, which had the Mac benefit (much trumpeted by the Mac brigade) of being virus free. And all for under £150 from Staples. And I might be wrong, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if you can load it with Windows then Mac is also available by the same route.
I had that Asus for two years before part-exchanging it because I wanted a full back-up for this PC. I carried the Asus with me on a daily basis in my work because it gave me access to the internet anywhere at any time. Small enough to slip into my work-coat pocket, if I needed to show a customer photographs or something on the local council website, or Planning Portal, whatever. I never had the battery go flat, and anyway had the inverter in the van which meant I could use it all day if I wanted. A 120 Mb portable hard drive gave me access to every piece of software on my main PC (including TurboCAD) and also acted as a back-up for that machine.
You won't fit any Mac into your coat pocket (admittedly a big pocket) and for the price they are you wouldn't want to, whereas at £147 for the Asus it was "expendable", just like any other of the tools on the van that saw a lot of use.
And after years of dealing with PCWorld, I now wouldn't go near them to buy a AAA battery.
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