On Aug 2, 10:30 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:14:41 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"John H." wrote in message
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Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?
Unless she likes laptop keyboards and pointing devices I would suggest an
external keyboard and mouse, either USB or wireless if you don't mind
fooling with batteries. I don't have a wireless keyboard but have wireless
mice on two computers. The one that is used extensively gets 2~3 months
from a set of quality alkaline batteries.

She's never had a laptop, and neither have I. We'll see how she does with
the built in stuff. I'd have to have the external mouse, as I can't stand
that rubbing the pad stuff.

The keyboard and mouse just plug in via USB cables. While a 16" wide
screen, you don't really need it, but if you want you can also use a
larger monitor and use the laptop as a CPU when she is at her desk. I
am a few years away from buying a new computer, but I am really leaning
towards buying a Mac and MacPro laptop. My son and my youngest girl
will buy a Mac Laptop in the next month. You can get a 10% discount and
a Ipod Touch for any students or teachers, so your wife would qualify.
I think they are both leaning towards the 13" laptop to make it easy to
carry, and then use a larger monitor and keyboard in their dorm.

Vista is so awful that I cannot reccomend any machine with it. The
new ASUS EE 9" has a larger keyboard and screen and comes with Windows
XP or the Linux OS of the older 7" EE. My 7' EE is the best computer
I have ever seen for travel. The various utilities seem to be
compatible with most things and it is cheap (a little over $400
including a 16 GB SD card). Take a look at it. It has been so simple
to use that it amazes me when I go back to a Vista machine. It is
also small compared to these monster so-called laptops other people
use and it boots up in 25 seconds compared to over 4 minutes for a
Vista machine. Shut down is less than 12 seconds..