My wife had an older 15" dell laptop at home. This is the same one in all the exam rooms, which is nice in a way. But we bought them all over 5 years ago.
She'd like to be able to work various places around the house to breakup the monotony of charts! She can do it today, but I think it'd be easier with something a lot lighter. All she ever does on the machine is log into work via logmein and run AC. Plus surf the web locally a bit.
I was looking at the newer dell XPS 13, just because we have all dells. But also at the Asus Zenbook UX31a but that got some really bad reliability reviews. I'm looking at 13" because I'm unsure if 11" will just be too small for the screen.
She logmein's mostly to the work laptops which are 1280x800 but sometimes into her desktop which is 1680x1050. Since her current laptop is 1280x800 that works out nicely when logged into the same laptop. It's 1:1 with her screen. With some new ultrabooks being 1920x1080 I'm wondering if she'll end up with just a little rectangle in the center surrounded by black on logmein. That is, can she use the extra resolution or is it in fact a detriment? Maybe should consider 11"?
I'm the IT guy for her office but very much an amateur. Most of our hardware (besides the main machine which we did upgrade) are now 5 years old I haven't stayed on top of latest advances.
