Chris wrote:
Chris wrote:
For years I had a borrowed laptop next to the settee.
It was a Dell Latitude - very light - only 1.2 kg.
It was really useful for casual web-browsing and looking up things when
doing the crossword - without going into the study to use the desktop
machine.

The laptop has now gone back to the friend it was borrowed from
and I'm wondering about various options.

I could buy a laptop - but I have a couple of old desktops - and
wondered about using one of them - set up in such a way as to be as
convenient as the laptop was.


By the time you've bought a TFT and wireless keyboard + mouse it might
work out cheaper to buy a 2nd hand laptop. Although possibly not. For
just browsing you can get away with a pretty old laptop.

if, by old laptop, you mean 400mhz cpu and 128mb ram then you're
deep into pocket pc territory.