FWIW: I owned a custom built laptop (until it finally died), now own a
Gateway, and when still working, had a big Dell provided by the
company. All three suffer(ed) from serious hash getting into the sound
card (for RTTY contests) when using the AC adapter. Can't beat the
portability that goes
Here is what I have found: Laptops often have less shielding and produce
more noise, and the switching supplies can be noisy. I have found a
Sony Vaio to be noisy and a Toshiba Libretto and an IBM 500e to be
quieter. The sound cards are often problematic, if you intend to do PSK
or other
A recent hard drive failure in the family's main computer has me evaluating
all the computing needs at our house. One small part of the equation is the
computer I use for login. I would like to know what others think makes a
companion computer for a K2.
Currently I am using a PII 233 desktop with
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