If you do all come, make sure you wear your Commodore shirts.
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.
Thanks for the Acer idea...buy.com has great sales on them.
And tell your niece that I have a slightly used Commadore 64 that I would be willing to deal on.
You forgot Snapple! :) Either way, I'm there!
I hate the Drake!
As long as you have the original box in which it came in...I'll consider your offer.
I bought an Acer from my local privately owned computer guy because I knew he would service it right. Hasn't needed it tho.
Does anyone know if Acer is a private label thing or what?
If you do all come, make sure you wear your Commodore shirts.
You crack me up!
Well, tell you what. Larry, Mr, Brightside and I will serenade you with "Three Times a Lady". You'll never stop laughing then. Especially if we wear our Commodores 1970's Hipster shirts.
I've taken notes on the suggestions you provided and will use them in my search to help my niece find the right laptop.
Thanks FReepers!
:)
~MG70~
I have had good experience with my Dell Latitude X300 (I love it b/c it is so small and when docked in supplied docking station it has 6 USB ports).
Do NOT get an IBM, whatever you do.
Noted.
My first computer over a decade ago was a Packard Bell; they make good boat anchors.
How dependable are the little plug in memory thingies that you pop into a USB port on the laptop?
Thmb Drives: I use them all the time -- they are pretty reliable.
But I wouldn't use one for long-term storage.
I'm doing a lot of editing on books so I thought to possibly put the research materials and edited copies on those thingies and pop them in and out as needed for storage of edited materials. I collect a huge amount of data prior to putting together a final product so somehting to store stuff on would be useful.
I would get a small external USB hard drive ("cigar drive") You can get a 40MB one that is 2"x1/4" for about 80 bucks.
I keep a portable external 100 Mb drive that I use for long term storage (CD images, etc.) but it requires 2 separate USB ports (1 for data, 1 for power). It is a little larger -- about 4"x3"x3/4" I keep it in the office when I get settle (I am a consultant so I change clients a few times a year).
The smaller one (mine is 20Gb but it is 2 years old) I used for transitory work -- utilities that I have refined, things that I load and unload from my laptop, stuff like that -- I keep it in my computer case with my laptop.
I use a 1 gB pen drive for transferring things to other people's computers or to move things between computers that are too big to email.
Microsoft has a free product called "Sync Toy" that I use to keep everything in sync.
Okay, I have to cry uncle here. I have no idea what the commodore shirts is a reference to (except that they look like cheap imitations of pirate shirts). Did I miss an episode? Or are we talking a completely different sitcom/series/movie altogether.
Yes, I'm behind the curve. :-(
Wrong, PB's are quite aerodynamic and would drag on the bottom. An HP or Compaq has those foot things that would dig in better.
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