[AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations

Sun Jun 25 15:37:52 PDT 2006

I just bought an Acer via Tiger Direct for $499, after the !@)(% $50 rebate, for my wife.  It's light, has a wide 15.4" screen, DVD player, wireless and AMD Sempron (sp?) 3100 processor.  It's downside is limited battery life, about 1 hour.  I think I could get a better battery for $50, but she would still have to plug it in sometime anyway.  

I got a Dell for one of the sons last year and I have a dell at work.  My work dell has 1000's of "miles" and shows it, but still works.  It does have a rub on the screen from the keytops, if I get another one, I'll cut a piece of heavy felt to keep between the keys and screen. 

For picture reteneion, I'd burn at least 2 copies to CD or DVD and keep them in seperate places, in addition to the laptop.  I think this one had a 60 or 80G hard drive, will that be enough?  If not, look at something like a Iomega network drive for your wireless network.  I use one for backup.  

Len Rugen

--0-1079901850-1151275072=:20327
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I just bought an Acer via Tiger Direct for $499, after the <A href="mailto:!@)(%">!@)(%</A> $50 rebate, for my wife.  It's light, has a wide 15.4" screen, DVD player, wireless and AMD Sempron (sp?) 3100 processor.  It's downside is limited battery life, about 1 hour.  I think I could get a better battery for $50, but she would still have to plug it in sometime anyway.  </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I got a Dell for one of the sons last year and I have a dell at work.  My work dell has 1000's of "miles" and shows it, but still works.  It does have a rub on the screen from the keytops, if I get another one, I'll cut a piece of heavy felt to keep between the keys and screen. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For picture reteneion, I'd burn at least 2 copies to CD or DVD and keep them in seperate places, in addition to the laptop.  I think this one had a 60 or 80G hard drive, will that be enough?  If not, look at something like a Iomega network drive for your wireless network.  I use one for backup.  <BR> </DIV>Len Rugen<BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV></div></body></html>