hi all, seeking opinion on this.
i'm going backpacking in 2 months for slightly more than a month. usually my gf and i watch DVDs on a portable player to kill time when we are traveling from place to place.
this time i'm thinking of getting a netbook (cheap one probably) to travel instead of bringing a DVD player and many DVDs around..
but of course it involves bringing portable storage and spending money and all that.. so what do you all think of the following options?
option 1. bring portable DVD player + DVDs...
I will be bringing portable storage, but because it's an old 80gb storage system that does not take SATA drives, so i probably have to bring an extra old IDE harddrive to swap around with it when one drive fills up. it's a nexto that has no image viewing capabilities. cost of this is option is $0.
option 2. buy a cheap netbook (~$400-$600)
buy netbook and bring portable 80gb harddrive, so can view pictures, watch movies, surf net, and still have portable storage to boot. cost of this option is cost of netbook, which is $400-$600.
but this cost can be hedged against by selling it after the trip, or i can just sell an old existing laptop that's lying around unused and keep the netbook (and i can even sell the DVD player). so potentially the cost can be minimized to maybe $100 or so.
the dvd player+dvds probably weigh as much as the netbook does... so weight is negligible.
of course there's always an option 3... just bring portable storage and live with it........
haha.
my concern with 3 is that i cannot view any photos!
but okay.. anybody got opinions on this? may help in convincing my gf (who's against spending money and chooses either option 1 or 3) or of course, in convincing me that option 2 is really a waste of money... haha.
thanks in advance!
i'm going backpacking in 2 months for slightly more than a month. usually my gf and i watch DVDs on a portable player to kill time when we are traveling from place to place.
this time i'm thinking of getting a netbook (cheap one probably) to travel instead of bringing a DVD player and many DVDs around..
but of course it involves bringing portable storage and spending money and all that.. so what do you all think of the following options?
option 1. bring portable DVD player + DVDs...
I will be bringing portable storage, but because it's an old 80gb storage system that does not take SATA drives, so i probably have to bring an extra old IDE harddrive to swap around with it when one drive fills up. it's a nexto that has no image viewing capabilities. cost of this is option is $0.
option 2. buy a cheap netbook (~$400-$600)
buy netbook and bring portable 80gb harddrive, so can view pictures, watch movies, surf net, and still have portable storage to boot. cost of this option is cost of netbook, which is $400-$600.
but this cost can be hedged against by selling it after the trip, or i can just sell an old existing laptop that's lying around unused and keep the netbook (and i can even sell the DVD player). so potentially the cost can be minimized to maybe $100 or so.
the dvd player+dvds probably weigh as much as the netbook does... so weight is negligible.
of course there's always an option 3... just bring portable storage and live with it........
haha.
my concern with 3 is that i cannot view any photos!
but okay.. anybody got opinions on this? may help in convincing my gf (who's against spending money and chooses either option 1 or 3) or of course, in convincing me that option 2 is really a waste of money... haha.
thanks in advance!
