The Littlest Laptop

I mentioned in an earlier post that for Earth Day we recycled our ancient laptop (hint: it still had Windows 98). We replaced it with this little gem from Amazon. It has flash memory - no spinning hard disk - so the batteries last for about 6 hours. And, with no spinning disk, it's nearly shockproof, at least far more than our big laptop. My hope is that because its so small and light, it will be easy to take to shore and find wireless hotspots while we're cruising. But far and away my favorite thing is that I can turn it sideways and read it like a book (about the same size and weight, too).

A question of scale: is this a very large red bell pepper, or a very small computer?