I have always had a laptop but one problem I have also had with them is the battery life. I have a HP notebook and the battery life is a little over 1 hour. I went on vacation a few weeks ago with it hoping to do some business on it but my battery was dead by the time we got their. I just count stay off it on the car ride their. So I was stuck in the middle of nowhere with a dead laptop. I just wish I would have had a EeePC so the battery would last longer and it would have been much more portable.