Eight Weeks Later: Living With The Lenovo X1 Carbon Ultrabook
While under a different title, this post is the third in a series called A Road Warrior Plans To Shed Some Weight. It describes my thoughts leading to the purchase of an Ultrabook.
It’s been about eight weeks since the Lenovo X1 Carbon arrived. During that time I’ve made three business trips. So I’ve accumulated some experience with the X1 Carbon (hereafter just X1C) both at home and on the road.
The day or two after I placed the order for the X1C I came down with a significant case of buyers remorse. I paid around $1700 for the device, which is without question a lot of money. I had thought that perhaps I was being unduly irresponsible, even for me.
A short while ago I spend a little time dealing with some 
Solid state disks (SSD) are coming down in price
and going up in capacity. The attractions are many; lower power consumption, low heat output, mechanically robust, decent write performance and dramatically faster read performance. There’s plainly a lot to like about SSDs.
model that I added to a new HP desktop purchased from 
I really do need a new computer bag. After over six years on-the-road the old one is starting to become unworkable. In reality, I want 
Like many people I’m making a New Year’s resolution with respect to losing some weight. However, in my case the sphere of concern to be addressed is my computer bag. It’s simply too heavy and I’m finally planning to do something about that.
This is the fourth installment in the long-running tale (parts