About a few weeks ago I was on the verge of impulsively buying a MacBook Air. Well, I am here not to brag but to express/confess a slight guilt of ending up buying one. This time, I really thought about it. To be honest, I’d been craving to get one for about a year. But what’s been stopping me from getting one was the mistake I made back then to buy an Eee PC, which was totally not working for me.

I went for the more expensive 11-inch one just to future proof it and hope that it’ll be able to run things perfectly a few years from now. The screen real estate is worse than I expected, but that’s probably because I’ve been using a 1920x1200 screen on a 17-inch. The chief reason for 11-inch was so that I can carry it to the university, use it on lecture desks, which only come in sizes smaller than an A4 paper.

It’s light enough that it feels indifferent to an iPad. I can conveniently use it whilst standing on trains (though I would totally look like a retard). And I think it is a much better investment than an iPad, which really cannot be used for word-processing, not for lectures.

There. Guilt confessed. 39,900 baht less in my bank account. Quality of life-unchanged but emotionally? Quite satisfying.