Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread maccrawj
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

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
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

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
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

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
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) bu

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread maccrawj
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

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-19 Thread maccrawj
:14 To: 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

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
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,

Re: [H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-18 Thread tmservo
To: 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 (thro

[H] Recommended Laptops/Notebooks and/or Brands

2010-05-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
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 narr