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Asus EEE PC 1201N: 12.1 screen, ION, Atom N330 Dual Core, 2GB RAM, 3Lbs. Unique unit among a field of 11 netbooks. 11 from outside edge of left most key to outside edge of right most key. This of course is sans-numeric keypad like all other netbook/notebooks. Caveat is chicklet style keys if that's an issue. Highly recommend this unit over any other netbook or notebook though it's pricey @ ~$490. Best video in it's price range, great battery life, decent enough CPU, more than capable of 1080P playback. On 5/18/2010 1:13 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Sometimes I see products with horrible reviews on newegg, and you read through it and realize people who review it just had no idea what they were buying. (See: cf to ide adapter reviews) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Tomporowskididym...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:11:14 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. ThanksSteve
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I still can't believe Asus has a RoG 17 laptop with great video CPU for $1000 AS I just posted, my KB is that width for almost 2/3 less cost half the weight though not a desktop replacement by any stretch it will give one a run for their money on battery life video playback. On 5/18/2010 3:51 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Just got a new laptop..it measures 11 inches from tab to return key (outer to outer). The keyboard is very spacious. Only problem...this sucker cost $1400. Sony Vaio vpcf115fm/b. It also weighs about 7 lbs. Pretty fast for a laptop (portable desktop replacement, IMO).
Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands
At 05:11 PM 18/05/2010, Steve Tomporowski wrote: My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. Acer. Though I don't like Netbooks, and would go with an Ultraportable myself. T
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Well, I didn't buy that Sony for battery life or video playback, though this machine plays blu-ray disc at full 1080p on its own screen, since its native resolution is 1920 x 1080 and it has a blu-ray player on board. I bought it because it comes with 6 GB ram and includes an i7-720 quad core processor at a 64-bit os. It rivals both my desktops and takes a fraction of the space...I do know a lot of people who buy laptops and park them. They just like the idea of a laptop but don't really want to carry it around. This sucker as the most wonderful keyboard of any laptop I've ever seen. It's even backlight at night (has an ambient light sensor on board). Price is the downside here, as is portability if one needs that. If I were only a gamer. On 5/19/2010 4:28 AM, maccrawj wrote: I still can't believe Asus has a RoG 17 laptop with great video CPU for $1000 AS I just posted, my KB is that width for almost 2/3 less cost half the weight though not a desktop replacement by any stretch it will give one a run for their money on battery life video playback. On 5/18/2010 3:51 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Just got a new laptop..it measures 11 inches from tab to return key (outer to outer). The keyboard is very spacious. Only problem...this sucker cost $1400. Sony Vaio vpcf115fm/b. It also weighs about 7 lbs. Pretty fast for a laptop (portable desktop replacement, IMO). No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2882 - Release Date: 05/18/10 14:26:00
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Also what I was thinking. Pretty much most netbooks are out, not only from the keyboard aspect, but because I know my wife would complain about having to use flash keys to install/move programs/data. Oh, I think she'd be able to handle it, she just probably wouldn't want to ;-). As for price, I was looking for something as cheap as possible, the resources are there right now Steve On 5/19/2010 4:48 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:11 PM 18/05/2010, Steve Tomporowski wrote: My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. Acer. Though I don't like Netbooks, and would go with an Ultraportable myself. T
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Well there is also Network and the abiity to attach a USB DVD-R drive or external HDD. Personally I do miss the ability to make DVD's on-the-fly, just not enough to switch to a heavier machine. On 5/19/2010 1:22 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Also what I was thinking. Pretty much most netbooks are out, not only from the keyboard aspect, but because I know my wife would complain about having to use flash keys to install/move programs/data. Oh, I think she'd be able to handle it, she just probably wouldn't want to ;-). As for price, I was looking for something as cheap as possible, the resources are there right now Steve snip
[H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands
My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. ThanksSteve
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Sometimes I see products with horrible reviews on newegg, and you read through it and realize people who review it just had no idea what they were buying. (See: cf to ide adapter reviews) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:11:14 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. ThanksSteve
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Just got a new laptop..it measures 11 inches from tab to return key (outer to outer). The keyboard is very spacious. Only problem...this sucker cost $1400. Sony Vaio vpcf115fm/b. It also weighs about 7 lbs. Pretty fast for a laptop (portable desktop replacement, IMO). On 5/18/2010 4:11 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd like to get her a laptop/notebook she can use. Netbooks are out for a simple reason--the keyboard is too small. Recently my wife bought a new keyboard (through Amazon Marketplace) but she didn't like it as the keyboard was too narrow. I've looked into this a little and the keyboard she didn't like had a measurment of 10.5 from the outside of the tab key to the end of the return key. The one she like was 11.25. S, I took a tape measure and went to Best Buy Staples and started measuring. Netbooks usually run from 9.5 to 9.75. Keyboards these days have shrunk. They range from 10.5 to 11.0 inches. Surprisingly enough, some of the cheapest and smallest keyboards/laptops have the biggest keyboards. Anyways, I'm looking for recommendations. I take all customer reviews with a grain of salt (one guy on Newegg gave an Asus laptop one star because they didn't include a reinstall disk). Of course, price is a major consideration. And of course, a wide keyboard, LOL. ThanksSteve No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2882 - Release Date: 05/18/10 14:26:00
