On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:54 pm, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : (Didn't notice there was more..) : : On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:35:06PM -0500, Linux Rocks! wrote: : > : Several reasons (why I bought my Powerbook): : > : : > : 1. Ability to actually open Word documents people keep giving me : > : without them getting annoyed when I tell them that OOo ate the thing. : > : > OOo sigh... OpenOffice was a disapointment to me. however abiword or even : > kword work fine. : : Abiword may one day be the Linux word processor of choice. It's not : today, though. =(
I have no complaints about abiword... works great for me. much better than OOo/StarOffice, but then I really dont use that type of software often... : : > eh... I can find many laptops under $1000 that meet this criteria. which : > gives you many design choices too... many for 1/2 the cost of the : > powerbook. If you like light computers, sony makes some really nice ones, : > much nicer than the powerbook IMHO. If you dont like sony, there are : > other manufacturers too (such as the averatec (a bit under powered, but : > can be found for $700)). There are plenty of other options too... I also : > can run linux, windows, bsd, ... just not mac os. : : Show me one sub-$1000 IA32 notebook that writes DVDs without hanging a : drive off a USB or Firewire port. I have yet to see it. well... I was thinking about DVD players mostly... every laptop Ive looked at recently has DVD (not RW), and CDRW, most are built in, but some are removable. The Dell (even the $600 one) did have many optical drive options (no extra charge) of DVDR, CD/DVD, CDRW, or CD. I think the DVDR was 4x, CD/ DVD was 24x RW, 8x DVD read I think. anyway you get the picture... If you buy a laptop with removable optical drive bay, you can replace it with whatever comes out next year... or even use it as a extra battery slot, or floppy, ... many of the sub $1000 laptops are all in one units, with no removable drives, but not all. How comfortable the keyboard/pointer is probably a better reason to buy one laptop over another IMHO. : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- > I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.. Disquieting ... -- Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
