Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:38:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba Laptop Selection
> I can afford. I'm looking for a PII machine, in the 300-400mHz range, > preferably not a heavyweight but fairly light/thin, maybe a 10.4" or 12" LCD. Only Librettos with these specs would be the Libretto L1 through L5 series that were sold in Japan. (see www.conics.net for Yahoo Auctions Japan purchases for these items as well as www.ebay.com for the occassional L series that appears there) eg. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31561&item=3491458058&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31561&item=3492355952&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3717&item=3492766810&rd=1 ---- Otherwise, what does she want? Light/small/expensive or heavy and cheap? For heavy & cheap, any of the Toshiba Satellite A series on sale at $899 after rebates or usually for ~$1000: eg. http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=313043&pfp=BROWSE ---- Unfortunately, all of the lightwieght, new laptops are expensive, so here, you'll spend $1500-2200 easily. eg. Fujitsu P5000 $1500+ http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=P5 eg. Sony TR series $2200+ http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=U3XSGOH0RpnSQKEHaMXYE6769QtXBCFi7LQ=?CategoryName=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers_TRSeries&Dept=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers ---- Basically, for school, you'll want 1) CD-RW to burn backups of reports, etc. 2) at least an Ethernet connection, but hopefully, either built-in WiFi and/or PCMCIA card for cheap WiFI card, 3) decent battery life of 3+ hours 4) a decent keyboard that she like typing on else cramps will happen and papers won't get done. Other than that, really, anything will do fine. (Just avoid HP/Compaq's -- the worst in reliability ratings vs. else in the 2003 PC Magazine and PC World User Reliability Surveys - see their websites for both.) Would not get a used notebook (unless it's a Toshiba Libretto, right? ,) simply because everything takes up so much processing power nowadays, you really will lose productivity on older, slower notebooks. (Yes, my L110 with Win98SE runs fine for the basics like email & WP, but realistically, it's too slow to do anything else worth doing -- presentations, video editing & encoding, graphic editing, etc. -- all of which I do on my desktop. Still, it's just the size for portable email and so forth...) Would not go below the screen size of these notebooks as smaller can be a problem when you're doing long hours worth of work. Just a bit too small for editing stuff hours on end sometimes on a tiny Libretto. --- d =) ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
