Peggy, First of all, the squiggley thing you are referring to is the tilde key and is in a weird placed on the Toshiba. It is where the alt key on the left side should be. This was something we didn't like about that machine when we looked at it. Also, make sure that the function key will allow you to use the J key and that to emulate the mouse. Having to have an external keypad does cost you some portability not to mention eating battery life.
Again, make sure that the function key behaves as expected. I'm not sure about this as we never got a definite answer on this when we looked at netbooks. Also stay away from the Dell as the RAM is not upgradable and even the Geek Squad at Best Buy was surprised by that one. We haven't had to go to the laptop layout on our Asus netbooks. That's a good thing in my opinion. Also be careful with the track pad as I'm not sure whether this can be shut off permanently as it can be on a full-grown laptop. We have to shut ours off each time we use the machine. It definitely makes you keep your hands up though. Just a few comments and a longer response than you were probably looking for. Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected] Using WE 7.1 on Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista home premium SP 1 with Office 2007 and IE 7 as well as Asus netbook running Windows XP home with Office 2003 and IE 7 and AVG 8.5 free on both machines. Chheck out my blog at packerbackerkaryn.blogspot.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
