Help Me! Laptop Edition

[Agathon]

Art and booze.

[Verto]

I checked out the laptops at Best Buy. Unfortunately, all of them had some kind of Best Buy garbage on it that only let you watch advertising and "look how neat this is" videos, so I couldn't get a feel for how it responded, or how the speakers sounded, or really see the display. They also had various security devices installed, and most had the battery removed, so it was impossible to weigh them, see how heavy they were, etc.

They had Toshiba, Sony, Compaq/HP, and Gateway, no Dell, no IBM. Very disappointing experience, and one that makes me less likely to buy a laptop from Best Buy.

Now, I've had Compaq PCs in the past and really don't have any plans to buy from them in the future, as general consensus seems to be they have gone downhill with their products.

How good is Gateway? Do they have a known history for good/bad computers?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
That Inspiron 700M spanks the PowerBook in every conceivable way...

Untrue.

The Inspiron comes with XP Home, that means it automatically sucks at networking and user management.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Untrue.

The Inspiron comes with XP Home, that means it automatically sucks at networking and user management.

What kind of network functionality is missing from XP Home that the average user needs? Ditto for user management?

You need to get real...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher


What kind of network functionality is missing from XP Home that the average user needs? Ditto for user management?

You need to get real...

You need to get real. Sop defending unexcusable MS behaviour.

The latest one is creating an OS full of holes, then starts selling an anti-virus/anti-spyware program.

The humanity.

Besides, you made a stupid assertion and I refuted it. Now live with your own mistakes.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You need to get real. Sop defending unexcusable MS behaviour.

The latest one is creating an OS full of holes, then starts selling an anti-virus/anti-spyware program.

The humanity.

Besides, you made a stupid assertion and I refuted it. Now live with your own mistakes.

You didn't refute it, you didn't even answer the question...

What kind of network functionality is missing from XP Home that the average user needs? Ditto for user management?

It's not refuting it calling it "undefensable behavior", while you skirt around the very issue. You need to get real.

[Jon Miller]

can the X-series run linux?

I am in the mode for laptop buying also

I am also impresed by the powerbook, but I don't think I would ge tone until the G5 comes out

I also like the x-series by IBM

I have seen too much that Dells are hit or miss

maybe I should check out Toshiba again

Jon miller
(price really isn't an issue, but would like the cheapest of course)

[Jon Miller]

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?seg=PSE&coid=-26371&sel=0&rcid=-26367&ccid=1291022

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?seg=PSE&coid=-26373&sel=0&rcid=-26367&ccid=1291022

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=2072542&storeId=1&catalogId=-840&langId=-1

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71108/wo/8gY5OBXvHPzt2Ko8RH72ARA64NR/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0

JM

[Jon Miller]

I like the protege

it would be cool to be able to write down physics equations and stuff on the computer (can it do that??)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

the toshiba is the most expensice, the apple is the least expensive...

I don't require that high of performance.... (of course I want the best offer I can get)

Jon Miller

[Mrs. Tuberski]

I can say stay away from the hp compaq presario i got the 2200 model and have had nothing but trouble with it and its only 3 months old.

[Nostromo]

Ditto for user management?

Are you guys are talking about user accounts here? User accounts are way too limited in XP Home. For example, I couln't play a single game in my user account, I had to log in my administrative account to do so. Dito for other programs like Winamp. I got fed up and erased my user account.

Now that I have XP pro, maybe I'll try to set up a user account again.

[Nostromo]

I like the protege

it would be cool to be able to write down physics equations and stuff on the computer (can it do that??)

You mean write them down directly on the screen? Yes, you can do that with the M200, it's a tablet pc after all.

[Jon Miller]

and than have them enter into mathematica or maple or some publishing software like latex or word?

JM

[Nostromo]

That I don't know. I know that Windows XP tablet pc edition converts handwritten text to typed text. And I know it's integrated with recent versions of Word. Of course, the technology isn't perfect, so it makes errors. Maybe you should check out the Windows XP tablet PC edition site for more info.