FOAK: Laptop advice

OK thanks, but I've just agreed to buy a Thinkpad T42 pretty cheaply.

Kiran

 

I've just got a Dell Latitude D410 - battery lasts 5 hours, it weighs sod
all, and is very small and compact - 1.8 Pentium M Centrino, 512 DDR, 60gb,
wifi built in, 12.1" screen. Got it from the outlet
(http://www.dell.co.uk/outlet) , part of a cancelled business order, for
£750 delivered inc XP Pro and 3 years on site warranty if it breaks.
Downside is it doesn't have TV out (VGA out but no Co-Ax or S-vid), and the
DVD/RW is external in a sort of caddy thing. Although it's not very big and
I never need to use CDs in it anyway, so it's not a huge issue. And the TV
out thing was sorted when I scored a 'port replicator' from eBay for a
tenner, with a loads of USBs and S-Video out etc.

HTH

 

Yhe T series Thinkpads are the best serious laptops I've ever used.
Vaio's are cooler, though. Bet mine's Cooler than Champ's, too.

 

The R and T series do rock as portable desktop replacements but for
portability this little Vaio TX1 is the fucking business

 

Eat me.
http://www.travelplus.co.uk/multest/picture_article_jpeg.asp?magazine_article_id=109

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Pah! Mere dilettantes, the pair of you:

http://www.cmog.org/usr/Catalog/2000/2000_3_63_lg.jpg

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the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Phwoar! Schrödinger porn...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

It might be, it might not be.

If I could only figure out how to open it...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

What about the air chisel?

....or is that what's in the box?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

I was aiming for subtlety.

I mean, "We opened the box and found a cat impaled on an air chisel".
What sort of experimental result is that? Especially when Appendix IX of
the protocol document notes that 76.45% of the investigation team
subsequently died of bird 'flu because Ace and Adie couldn't get off
their collective arses to certify the appropriate therapies.

<taps nose>
<fails to learn from experience>

Ow!

<dies>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Sounds like an experiment to determine whether TOG was actually going into
the feline spare parts business.

You're as bad as Champ and his orthopedic stool.