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| Thread ID: 28337 | 2002-12-16 23:43:00 | Buy Laptop Dilemma | Steve_L (763) | Press F1 |
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| 106710 | 2002-12-17 02:24:00 | Nice interleaving, though. :D (When I hit the post button, I got a 404 error. Went to Preview, and posted form there, rather than lose the typing. It had gone through the first time. It happens. ;-)) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 106711 | 2002-12-17 02:33:00 | Sure you weren't post padding?? ;) ;) ;) At another forum I used to visit, someone once made a joke that they were post padding in a thread. The administrator deducted 2000 posts from their post count. Ouch! |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 106712 | 2002-12-17 03:50:00 | Its up to your budget. I suggest a new or used laptop. its a risk each individual takes. u can upgrade RAM and hard drives quite easily now days. they are user installable. i am using my 4th laptop in 6years. 486 DX4-75, PI, PII, PIII. Check out www.pricespy.co.nz the 2.5" notebook HDD are quite reasonable. RAM also...... IBM models are most flexible both new and old tend to be upgradeable with the drive bays of 2nd HDD, 2nd battery, floppy, CD, CDRW, DVD, CDRW/DVD, LS 240, ZIP 250 ..... The later cpu's - i think PII or PIII and PIV maybe are 'mobile cpu' which means are upgradeable by the user. The used ones most most would have modem and IR builtin and even LAN. usage of external monitor, mouse and keyb are possible. the problem area from experience, are the HDD wear and tear and the power problems *not starting when u turn on*. normally are only 1yr warranty, more $$ ones are 3yrs. Rayonline |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 106713 | 2002-12-17 20:19:00 | Thanks to all of you for the help given. :) The budget is around $800 - $1,000 maybe more depending on the specs and history. I will check out the IBM models, and trademe.co.nz A battery is a necessity. By the way, did any of you see the news article a couple of weeks ago, about the Swedish guy who had his nuts fried when doing laptop work - on his lap? It was a legit story. Seems that laptops emit radiation or something and can harm human skin, etc. The Swede had to go to the hospital. :o Ouch...! (An aside...) How can the vertical line be made for the emoticon "Cry"? The ASCII code is :_l and the last vertical line is not a small "L" because this does not produce an emoticon. I cannot find a vertical line on the keyboard or using a full list of Alt Codes. Thanks. |
Steve_L (763) | ||
| 106714 | 2002-12-17 20:31:00 | > Thanks to all of you for the help given. :) The > budget is around $800 - $1,000 maybe more depending > on the specs and history. I will check out the IBM > models, and trademe.co.nz A battery is a necessity. I'll still go with saying that new is better. You may find out that you will need to pay more just to replace parts after purchase, which can be very costly. Have you thought of leasing? Most places offer flexirent (http://www.flexirent.co.nz), so you can pay it off over 36 months, and then trade up for free to a new model. > By the way, did any of you see the news article a > couple of weeks ago, about the Swedish guy who had > his nuts fried when doing laptop work - on his lap? > It was a legit story. Seems that laptops emit > radiation or something and can harm human skin, etc. > The Swede had to go to the hospital. :o Ouch...! Yup - we had a thread about that here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) > (An aside...) How can the vertical line be made for > the emoticon "Cry"? The ASCII code is :_l and the > last vertical line is not a small "L" because this > does not produce an emoticon. I cannot find a > vertical line on the keyboard or using a full list of > Alt Codes. Thanks. Under the backspace key on your keyboard, it has | and \. Hold down shift and hit that key to produce the vertical line ( | ) :D |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 106715 | 2002-12-18 02:30:00 | Thanks 'Honey'. I saw that key under the Backspace key, but it is labelled with a broken vertical bar, not solid as it should be. Now to test it with this emoticon: :_| Cheers - Steve | Steve_L (763) | ||
| 106716 | 2002-12-18 02:38:00 | The keytop has it right; the screen font has it wrong. :D It's a broken bar and it has a different code from l (lower case L). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 106717 | 2002-12-18 06:54:00 | This year we've bought 3 of those el cheapo PC Company laptops for $2000 each - I see you can get them now for $1600 odd....why buy 2nd hand? Pros: 256mb ram standard, Celeron 1.1, 10gig drive, built in modem and LAN, good sized screen, CDrom built in, 4 USB ports (only 1.1), Svideo out, comes with XP. Cons: No PCM slot, no floppy, no battery. We bought USB floppy drives at $80 each but they are barely used - everything is email or networked across if needed. We also purchased external batteries at $180 each, big mothers but again very rarely used, just plug in power and go, but at least we have the batts if needed. Would we buy them again? At $1600, without a doubt. (they are called starnote or something like that in the shops) |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 106718 | 2002-12-18 07:50:00 | PCM - u mean PCMCIA thought these were basic for all laptops. |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 106719 | 2002-12-18 08:55:00 | Yup PCMCIA - but really when you've got modem and lan on board and USB, there's no real need for PCMCIA...well, that's what I thought until mobiel jetstream came along, now it's a matter of hooking the cellphone into the laptop instead of buying one of those mega bucks gtrans cards... | falvrez (390) | ||
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