I have very specific visions of how I want to use my gadgets. They should be easy to take with me and easy to keep track of. That’s not often easy with a bag.

I’ve thought about finding a jacket and sewing a pocket into it large enough to store a netbook. I’ve thought about cutting into old jackets so I could run headphones from a breast pocket up to the collar through the inside of the jacket, so I didn’t have to mess with the cord getting in my way, or not being able to find the inside of my ear buds.

So I just saw this article on The Consumerist. About a vest with a pocket inside that the iPad could fit inside. That alone piqued my interest.

So I wandered over to SeV, aka SCOTTEVEST’s website. They don’t just have vests, they have full line of clothes–jackets, shirts, pants, etc. The vests and jackets I looked at have big, (iPad-sized) pockets and lost of smaller pockets for other things.

Wow, ever since I heard about the T101MT, I sure have been blogging about it a lot. Well that’ll change soon because…well…I got a T91MT. In a round-about fashion I won one. I should have it in my grubby little hands leaving disgusting fingerprints all over it’s glossy finish as you’re reading this, even though I don’t have it yet. You see, I wrote this bit Friday night, to be posted over the weekend while I’m on a little trip in recognition of Easter (I take the Easter Bunny’s crucifixion and subsequent rise very seriously).

I had my choice of a few netbooks, and I could have waited a bit for the for T101MT, but I didn’t. Why not? Let’s compare:

So let’s retrace my old steps.

I bought an eeePC 701. Loved it. Don’t mind the tiny keyboard. Prefer it, actually, because my fingers are now used to moving and pressing down less than on any of my other full-size keyboards.

Upgraded to an eeePC 901. Bigger screen. Better battery life. Loved the flat finish of the 701 and the beveled edges. By contrast the 901 is just a glossy, rounded fingerprint magnet. With crappy speakers. I don’t regret buying it. It does everything I bought it for, and I have watched many a season of TV shows on it during long car trips.

Can’t really use either outdoors, in bright sunlight. I’ve tried.

Got my eye out for a netvertible now. Use it like a netbook, or fold the touch-screen back and use it like a tablet. Hopefully could write on it with a stylus and stop using so much paper. Looking at:

I’ve been working pretty hard on a few projects as of late, and that generally results in my taking mini-breaks by wandering around my room and tidying things up. It’s started to seem pretty ridiculous to me that I have so many papers. When writing, it’s just easier to brainstorm and work out outlines with a notepad and a piece of paper. It might not be as fast and the result is quite a bit harder to read, but it’s just easier for some reason.

Asus really took the world by storm with the eee PC 701. Everyone was talking about them. They piqued everyone’s interest in offices and coffee shops. I have one. The netbook is something I’ve been desiring for a long time, long before they existed. I think the desire started back as a kid watching the cartoon “Inspector Gadget.” Penny had a computer book, a portable computer mostly used to hack into any electronic device in the area. Imagine my disappointment when I asked for one some Christmas, and was told by my mom that they don’t exist. Despite the fact that it was imaginary, the idea was still planted in my head of how cool it would be to have a computer–smaller than a laptop, bigger than a PDA, that I could take everywhere with me.