Re: [H] Consumer reports smokes crack

[Thane Sherrington]

At 07:58 AM 03/01/2007, j maccraw wrote:
Certainly they are essential!

Dictionary.com disagrees:
es·sen·tial
–adjective
1.      absolutely necessary; indispensable: 
Discipline is essential in an army.

The laptop would function fine without any of 
these.  That makes them non-essential.  Very nice 
to have, perhaps.  Extremely useful.  But not essential.

T