At 04:50 PM 07/01/2007, j maccraw wrote:
Ok, I'll revisit this one last time. From experience, these options are necessities. Not in the sense that the laptop stops functioning but in the sense that it becomes hard to use the laptop in both home & mobile uses with major hassles & money loss.
I've been using laptop for slightly over two years with a single battery, power adapter, and touchpad. I do a lot of work, and this configuration has never let me down. Now I can imagine situations where these additions would be a necessity, but they are very specific and generally unusual (from the Consumer Reports average reader's standpoint.) So yes, you have a point that in very specific situations these extras become essential but if one is going to do that, then the sky's the limit. Consumer Reports is a magazine aimed at the average casual buyer - not the hard core user, who already knows what he needs. So in this case they are wrong and they are misleading their subscribers.
T
