From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 06/21/2012 05:28 PM, Jim Beard wrote:   
   > I have been toying with the idea of buying a laptop for 2 or 3 years   
   > now, and the possibility of Winblows Ate leading to indigestion has me   
   > inclined to buy one sooner rather than later.   
   >   
   > My basic want list is largest screen I can get, multi-core cpu, large   
   > hard drive, DVD R-W, and the usual assortment of connectors (ethernet,   
   > USB, ?anything else I will need?). Battery life is not really important,   
   > as I expect to tether it to a wallwart for use, but desktops are too   
   > much trouble to assemble/disassemble and haul around in a car or maybe   
   > (if absolutely necessary) on an airplane.   
   >   
   > My don't want list includes anything by Toshiba, Sony, or other Japanese   
   > company, plus Lenovo.   
   >   
   > I looked at an HP DV76C63NR that has an i5 cpu 640GB HD and a Dell   
   > i17RN-2943BK that has an i3 and 500GB, both with 17-inch screens and   
   > Win7 64-bit home edition or some such, which I would likely shrink to   
   > maybe 50GB and keep for dual-boot, just in case I might need Willy's   
   > Wonker software.   
   >   
   > Comments? Suggestions?   
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
      
   	Coming in late but if you want a laptop check the   
   current advertisements on geeks.com.  They have some tasty   
   looking bits at lower prices.   
   	The CUCUG newsletter has an article that puts forward   
   that now is a bad time to buy laptops.  The reason is that   
   the next generation or so will have enhanced displays among   
   other things.   
   	So if now is the time for a laptop, I know what   
   you mean about making decisions and doing it ASAP.  But   
   I cannot reasonable commit large sums of cash and credit   
   to that sort of thing.  Geeks.com was not having many   
   laptops so a few years back I went to BestBuy and checked   
   on their refurbished machines.  That is where the present   
   very solid hardware came from.  That was when we SS recipients   
   got a nice stimulus payment which filled out the $500 for   
   a dual-core AMD, 232 Gib machine with additional ram.   
   	I like it when it works.  Right now not so happy   
   with the stuff.   
      
   	But yesterday I had a problem with the damn Mandriva 2010.0   
   and the repeatedly burned DVD would not download and install   
   the latest updates of kde desktop(failed on 3 attempts) after   
   all the other stuff was in place so I gave up and went to Mandriva   
   One 2011 and did a live install.   
   	  Working with it this AM I noted ¨the horror of the basic Linux system   
   supplied and by breakfast time had made up my mind.  I ordered the   
   Mandriva PowerPack 2011  this morning and am still waiting for it to   
   start downloading in KTorrent.  And I considered ftp but the damn One   
   has no ftp tool available afaik.   
      
   	Good luck and don´t spend a lot on a tool that will   
   be obsolete as you carry it away.   
      
   	bliss	   
   	   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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