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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Tara who wrote (13807)	12/21/2002 8:22:32 PM
From: peter michaelson	Respond to of 14778

Hi Jon: I've been using a Compaq notebook for over a year with a 15" UXGA (1600x1200) screen. At this point, every XGA screen looks horrible. I still get occasional issues with font size, but I've developed some simple keyboard macros to quickly adjust things as needed. An example of this is having Internet Explorer ignore font sizes when web page fonts are too tiny - a quick Alt_O and I'm fine - one more time and I'm back to normal. Hope this helps. By the way, the Compaq described in this post is what I have now, and am still using. Message 16382443

To: Jon Tara who wrote (13807)	12/21/2002 8:42:10 PM
From: tony	Respond to of 14778

You can buy from Yahoo/Ebay cheaper. or try this desknote.net DeskNote is great, it is a cool from temperature point of view also. You can buy external USB drive. No inbuilt WIFI. But WIFI is only good upto 150 feet. Using Verizon express network is good idea.

To: Jon Tara who wrote (13807)	12/22/2002 10:59:25 AM
From: Greg from Edmonton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Anything that I should be considering other than IBM A, Dell 8200, and Toshiba Sattelite Pro? (Dunno if they have a slide-in hard drive option? I just liked the look of the display...) My girlfriend had finally decided that she needed a laptop computer to supplement her older desktop computer (she is a teacher). I was recommending the IBM Thinkpads or the Toshiba notebooks. At one of my previous employers, the manager had a Dell laptop but leaned his elbow against the closed laptop computer on his desk and shattered the screen (that's my reason for any negative bias against the Dells). The IBMs are nice but the Toshiba came out ahead in value. Besides, the Toshiba was also on sale for $200 off regular price a couple of weeks ago so she bought a new basic Toshiba laptop at that time and has been quite pleased with it. Summary of features: Celeron-M 1.8GHz, 256MB RAM, DVD, ATI video, LAN, modem, XP Home.