Sorry for the lack of papers blog the last two days. There have been some technical glitches that we should have sorted by tomorrow.

On that note, does anyone have advice on what’s a good laptop to buy. I think I need a new computer, and it may as well be a laptop. Here are the constraints I’m working under.

* Must be Windows-based (for one thing the papers blog software is Windows, for another I couldn’t be bothered converting all my files)
* Good battery life (or cheap and easy to install second batteries)
* Good networking capacities
* Good keyboard
* Not too expensive

I’m less fussed about processor speed, disk space etc. But I’ve never bought a (new) laptop before so I don’t even know where to start looking or have any sense of which of the brandname models are best.