Posted on 09/07/2006 7:39:01 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
My niece is a nursing student in Tucson, AZ and I need help guiding her as to which laptop she needs to buy.
She needs the basics for now; MS Word and Excel to do her homework on.
A computer that is very resonably priced and of good quality is the goal.
Addt for SyncToy? I presume you can move from cigar drive to main drive for drap and pastes?
BTW, thanks so much for the advice ... as easily seen, I'm technoilliterate.
You can do that -- but syncing is nice when you do a bunch of work and just want the system to keep it in sync. It is especially good when I get it home to my "computer center" and I sync up to my big desktop.
I wrote a DOS batch file that will recognize my drives by name and always mount them to the same drive letter. It has been a big help.
Glad to help -- ping or FReepmail me any time.
How about a Toshiba? Now THERE was good anchor material (the older ones).
True, but for anchoring anything larger than a rowboat I'd skip PC's altogether and go right to the 12,000 BTU Commando 8. But I'd be careful about the cord - they tend to snap.
...and ignore the "don't buy from the CHICOMs" stuff. You simply will not find a computer that doesn't have components that were made in China. Think of the purchase as subverting the Commies one IC at a time.
My sons got a brand new that he thought he had to have. All the bells and whistles . He paid 800 and he'll take 650.00 ! Glad to be of help!
Packard Bell?! I started out on one of those.
Penny fell out of my pocket onto the motherboard while changing the modem. BZZZT! Best thing that ever happened to my PC history.
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How does printing work from a laptop? She just needs to have an outlet and cables at home or school for printing?
So I suppose a printer at home and a printer at school would be the most likely setup. Just plug in the cable for which ever printer is handy, and print away. There will usually be a one time installation of the printer driver software into Windows. But from that point on, Windows should automatically recognize which printer is attached.
these kids are just happy to get on the internet. I find that the 512 on my Acer is fine....and it is a great machine.
Not only that they are crappy as far as performance...
Poopy, I just bought one yesterday. LOL At least is was a display model. Toshiba and Acer are one and the same, correct?
900 Mhz. P-III, 256MB RAM, 32GB HDD, DVD-ROM, 1400x1050 display, little dinky speakers which actually don't sound too bad, even a little keyboard light.
It came with Windows 98 SE installed. I ordered a combination 10/100 ethernet and modem mini-PCI card on the net (~$35), swapped out the the disk for something a little bigger (40GB), installed Windows 2000 Pro and Fedora Core 5 on it. I had a Belkin wireless G card already, with drivers for both Windows and Linux (via ndiswrapper), and I'm just about done getting all of my apps set up on both partitions.
I already had a port replicator for the T20 family as I used an employer-provided T21 in my last job. I'm a Thinkpad fan anyway, but THIS is a nice box. It's already my favorite laptop.
NO! NO! NO!
ACER is a pretty decent Taiwan company. I suppose it's possible that Toshiba owns a chunk of Acer but I haven't read that anywhere before.
My used-off-of-e-bay Thinkpad gets sooo hot and then it freezes. (yeah, I know) I even bought a new battery. It sort of has a ethernet connection and came with Office 2000. My IBM Aptiva desktop computer, although older, works very well. FYI, IBM is on the same National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce list that Wal-Mart just joined.
You bought my ex-wife on eBay? It doesn't really suprise me.
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