I brought the little computer with me. It has a 600Mhz mobile processor that makes it very slow to boot up. I got it going and the battery lasted the whole 40 minutes of the trip and the display claimed that it had an hour and a half to spare. I did not however have any word processor installed, so there was not much accomplished except to do some configuration.

The bus seats are too close together and I was so cramped that I could not get in a comfortable position to type. I will copy Office XP to a USB drive and do the MS Word install on the way home. I am going to follow the wikihow.com article on How to Dramatically Speed up Windows XP. I am also looking to see if I can bump up the memory on the laptop to one or two gigs, which should speed up everything. Older memory is much more expensive than new memory, however.

I will also copy my work-in-progress folder to a USB drive and maybe actually write a thousand words on each trip.