On Sunday 16 November 2003 03:33 am, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : > 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... : : I have a hard time accepting that there is no extra charge given that the : choice then would be DVD+-RW, just as it would be for a desktop. (The : drives are getting cheaper on the desktop - cheaper enough that that IS : the standard choice for a new machine anymore.)
dell didnt have much details in the dropdown menu list... but I think the DVDR(w?) was a very low end one, if you chose dvd/cdrw, it was fairly decent (like 8xDVD, 24x cdrw), and the plain cd was 48 or 52x). I wasnt really looking for DVD+-RW for the laptop... but that doesnt mean they arent out there, I was primarily looking at new laptops w/warrently under $1k. with a laptop that price, a USB DVD burner would be a decent option. For the same cost of the mac laptop (non-student price), Im sure you can find them with the burner built in, but havnt looked. : > 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. : : That was one of the reasons why I bought the (more expensive) Powerbook. : The iBook just didn't have as nice a keyboard. Avoid Gateway notebooks, : their keyboards are crap. Dell too bad - pretty similar to the iBook. : IBM is supposed to have better, though I haven't tried their latest : models. Their older keyboards were better, but they were also : substantially thicker than the current models. I used an older IBM last summer, and even though it wasnt a fast computer, I did like the keyboard and display on it... it was arpox 300mhz, so its probably a few years old. nice key size, and action on the keys. the mousepad was decent too, but ive used better. I did find an averatec at staples, and like they key size, placement and action (except the puny space bar and hard to reach backspace). I found the mousepad way too far from the keyboard though... hard to use w/out completely taking your hands off the keys (ie using your thumb.) but other than that it was pretty nice, real light and thin, decent display. its kind of a small display, but then, its a small computer! Jamie : : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
