I still have my Pivot. Even prior to that Apple had the 2 page
display. It was BW but it would display 2 pages side by side. It
was great for assembling large documents from small, editing,
proofing and so forth. I found one used and gave it to the lady who
edited my thesis and lots of others. Her day job was editing papers
at the veterinary Medicine Research Center, and I got it working
there as a second monitor on a 7200 or something like that. She
absolutely loved it. She could have 3 pages up at once with one on
her radius pivot, and 2 more on the 2 page monitor.
Apple also had some taller than wide monitors (one page) that were
sold into education.
Those 12" PBs were great -- iight, full sized keyboard, decent
battery life, and small enough not to require a huge case. Bought
one for my niece for college and she loves it. Best thing is the
deep screen, since she uses it mostly for writing papers and such
stuff, and a "widescreen" is a pain for that. Remember the old
Radius Pivot, that would give you a full page on the screen? What a
concept!
The 13" MacBooks are OK, I use one some, but not as nice for word
processing as the 12" PB.
Only thing I gotta do with it is replace the power in board, she
dropped it on the power cord and the battery only runs for a few
minutes and charges strangely. Might be a bad battery, too,
although I replaced it about 18 months ago when I got the computer.
Peter
On Dec 23, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
I travelled with a 12" Powerbook and used terminal services client
to tap into my static winders machines for several years. Now I
seldom use winders. I still keep server running on a couple of
boxes and have an XP box for occasional use. The 12" PB was and
still is way better for the road warrior than almost any winders
laptop
I purchased my Mac in October 2007 and have never reinstalled the OS. I've
upgraded the OS a few times, and copied it to a new hard drive when I
upgraded to a larger one, but never reinstalled :-) The laptop was thinner
and lighter (especially the power supply) than the 17" Dell I was issued at
the time. I was fortunate to work for a company that let me use my
personal laptop for work and they let me return the Dell. It saved them
money and saved me the headaches of dealing with Windows on a regular
basis. :-)
Brian
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, then there is dell that will let you talk to somebody in India. And
then there are the times they (Hp, Dell or ?) claim it is the
OS. Call M$
and you get to talk to somebody in India. If you get get them
to escalate,
then you get to talk to another schmuck in india the next day.
After
wasting days and money, you end up wiping the drive and installing the OS
and all software again, then it is hours of downloading, restarting and
whatnot to get all the updates.
Yes, OS 10 and the hardware have some idiosyncrasies, but M$ and generic
hardware have a LOT of idiosyncrasies
Only time I have reloaded OS 10 is after a drive dies. Same drives as in
generic PC hardware (Well maybe Apple uses higher MTBF drives. They don't
use bottom of the barrel drives.)
That depends.
If you are a corporate or education customer, there are qualified VARs
that provide support.
And as an HP certified technician who used to support a part of a 40,000+
node enterprise, I can tell you that the guy who comes to fix
your HP stuff
is most likely not an HP employee, but a VAR that provides third party
support for them.
I have not been impressed with the level of service for HP VARs. one of
the reasons we certify in-house.
Dan
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