She still takes her MacBook Pro with her on tour, she told me, using standard-issue recording programs, GarageBand and Logic Pro 8, as a notebook for developing ideas for compositions and arrangements.
The price points between them are often as little as $20, which allows HP to have a notebook for nearly everyone.
Available next month and billed as the world's smallest tablet convertible, the 1.5-pound LifeBook U810 can be used as a standard notebook for sending e-mails and surfing the Internet, or as a handheld Tablet PC with a touch screen for finger or pen input.
A capture tool, such as a notebook, can be used for instant notes on what needs to be done.
Tip 2: Invest in a camera For me, a camera is just as essential as a notebook when I'm looking for inspiration – if not more so.
Abdul-Ahad works with a camera as well as a notebook: his vivid, nuanced dispatches for the Guardian are illustrated with his own photography, and in Mosul he also shot video footage for a documentary to accompany his report.
This is the company's first step into Chrome territory, while competitors like Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Acer have been pumping out the light-as-air notebooks for a while now.
At first, he used a camera as his notebook for recording street scenes he wanted to paint.
(The company is selling a magnetically attached cover for Surface that doubles as a notebook-size keyboard).
As he scourges his notebook for a recollection, a woman pithily asks, "Is this your first gig?" The film also features comic Orny Adams as he tussles to make it in show business.
