Posted on August 15, 2008 by Ashleigh

In a month David (my boyfriend) and I are hopping onto a plane bound for Dubai and from Dubai we’re heading to Melbourne, Australia, arriving ridiculously early on the 17th of September. It’s been a long time coming and I’ve missed Melbourne terribly though I’ve suddenly realised there’s going to be an issue of needing to be able to take my work with me.

After working as a freelance web designer for a while I’ve built up a nice client base and have half a dozen projects on the go as we speak. Because of this, I can’t exactly disappear for a month – nor would I want to as I love what I do. It is for this reason, and for convenience sake once I return to England, that I have decided to buy a laptop.

When I first decided that I wanted to buy a laptop I hit Google and began researching. I needed a system with decent graphics, enough ram to cope with using Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash simultaneously and enough harddrive to store PSDs, high resolution images and flash templates. After a week of research, I’ve decided to buy Acer’s Gemstone Blue 6920G. It does everything that I want and more – and it’s blue!

At one point I considered getting a MacBook as people seem to think Apple computers are the best for web design but seeing as I’m a Windows girl at heart I came back to Acer’s beautiful blue notebook.