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To: Norwegie who wrote (1582)	1/16/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

>>Wily: Yes, get a big one. This is only a 166 but when I bought it I bought it for traveling which we do a lot of for eight months a year. But it is too darn slow for the four months we have to stay home. I've been out looking at a desktop with 400 mhz, but haven't told my husband. I'll wait until I make the money to pay for it, then I'll ask him if I can have it. This is a Toshiba and I really like it but like I said, its too slow. A bigger more expensive Toshiba laptop would be one she should consider. What do you do with it that you find a 166 to be too slow? Just curious. I got sticker shock looking at the Dells and even the Toshibas. Seems I promised a little more than I bargained for (It's a combination present for the whole year--birthday, Christmas, etc.) Maybe get her a cheaper laptop and augment it with a desktop to give her the kind of functions she needs. If I think about it long enough maybe they will come down in price to where I can afford a nice one. How big a screen on a lap-top do you need for easy viewing of web-pages? Is CD ROM a must? What do you think of the super-slim models? How much do you have to pay to get something that is worth buying? Thanks for your answers. Regarding your History Folder and the slow web surfing--this is still bothering me. Is the slowness proportional to the size of your History Folder? I'm not sure by your response whether you have defragmented recently. Even though Windows says you are only 2% fragmented, since you are using 1/3 of your drive space, that could really be spread out quite a bit and slowing things down. Have you ever used the "show details" option when defragmenting? It gives you a good idea of what is going on in that little box (your hard-drive) and what Windows has to work with. Can you tell me if you are slow when clicking on links you have not been to before, or are you slow when revisiting old ones--or both? (If you don't mind being interrogated). wily