I love shiny technology. I blame this entirely on my father, who loved coming home with new toys: we had a PC in 1982, for instance, back when floppy disks were actually floppy and the idea of a computer monitor with other colors than black and green was like something out of science fiction.

In my never-ending quest for new pretties, I bought myself an Asus Eee Surf this week. The Eee is a microcomputer: it’s about the size of a mass market paperback book and weighs two pounds, most of which is the battery. This particular model has only 2 GB of hard drive space but that’s easily expanded upon with an SD card or flash drive. It has a Linux operating system, and some of the newer models come with Windows XP. I opted not to go with Windows because files are easily compatible using OpenOffice software, which runs equally smoothly in Windows and Linux. It comes preloaded with OpenOffice, a PDF reader, Firefox, Skype, and a lot of other programs geared towards beginners and young students.

I have named it Kaylee. (Yes, after a character from ‘Firefly.’ I have mentioned the bit where I’m an enormous geek, haven’t I?) I am of the school of thought that you should name everything you spend a lot of time with, so I have named all my computers, my iPod, and my car. (Blueberry, for the curious.)

Pictures below the jump.
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