Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:37:16 -0700 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] public shame...
Quoting Trevor Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:47:56 +0100 > From: "Trevor Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] public shame... > > Ok Neil seeing as its confession time in the spirit of the "Spanish > Inquisition" Whats the "Spanish Inquisition" got to do with anything?!?! OK I know its a Monty Python quote (which I don't remember) but it'd be good if someone could explain this one to me ... heh > I too have digressed shame have moved to a Portege 320CT, > eyesight not what it used to be! but have retained my trusty 70CT. What > penance should I submit to!!! *sigh* OK I might as well lay my cards on the table before I start berating the people who will confess to having non-Toshiba laptops in the next few hours ;-) Warning, this does get long as I've got stuck in rant mode but given that there IS no useful information in this post anyway, you're welcome to skip it and move on. OK? You're still here? Well you WERE warned! OK here goes ... Zero'th laptop: Second hand Compaq LTE Lite/25. Bad move. REALLY bad move. Got me through high school though (and really, I couldn't afford a Toshiba back then). First laptop: Compaq Contura somethingorother (486). Company laptop that no-one was using, had it for a few months. Again really bad move. At least it could run Linux I guess. The last non-Toshiba laptop I owned (although I've had to deal with newer Compaq laptops since and they've not been an awful lot better). Second laptop: Toshiba Tecra 500CDT. My first foray into Toshiba laptops. Really nice. Really really nice. A lot 'smarter' than the current crop of laptops ... I could even eject the CD-ROM drive hot without telling the laptop and when I went to try to access it, it'd behave as if I had just ejected the disk (which makes sense) as opposed to crashing (which is what most modern laptops do) or giving me a system error (which is what modern laptops claim they're supposed to do). Ditto for the floppy disk drive. It was weird though, it'd let me eject it from its docking station even though it had no battery in it (and since it was a motorized undock you could probably guess what happened ...) ... pitty it had a dead internal keyboard (which is why it got given to me as a redirection off the scrapheap, being a poor first year university student at the time) so whenever I wanted to use it I'd need to carry around a desktop keyboard. I still use it as a nice, compact desktop that doesn't need a bulky monitor (the docking station lets me test hard drives and expansion cards much more conveniently than a desktop). Third laptop: Toshiba Portege 3010. Only had it for a few months (company laptop), would be even nicer than the Tecra if it was free (like the Tecra was) ... nice, light, powerful and, had the Libretto not come along, would have been the best laptop I'd have had the pleasure of having to use. I'd imagine the 7020 would be the same. Fourth laptop: Toshiba Satellite 30CDT. Again, company laptop. Not bad, sorta like a bigger Portege but no magnesium case. Its got a damn strong magnesium frame though (we're talking a fall off a speeding bike onto bitumen leaving it missing a good 1-2cm off one corner but the thing still in fine working condition). My respect for Toshiba laptops grow, tempered only by the fact that they put WinME on them at this stage ... Fifth laptop: Second hand Toshiba Libretto 50CT. REALLY nice. Carried it around with me nearly everywhere. The fact that my everyday coat had a pocket that was *just* big enough to fit it in was nice. Even went and got a 20 gig hard drive for it. Pitty it didn't have the RAM upgrade (and I couldn't afford to get one given the ridiculous prices they go for now). Now belongs to my sister. Sixth (current) laptop: Second hand Toshiba Libretto 100CT. I thought the L50 was nice, this one was even better. I could rant on but I've just realized I've spent too much time on this list already and I've got to get some work done but in short, I *really* love this laptop ... now that I've got provisions for PS/2 keyboard and mouse (and where I work there are ALWAYS spare ones of those lying round), I use this hallowed piece of electronic wizardry more than ever. And yes my new coat has pockets big enough to accomodate the extra 1cm or so that prevented this L100 from fitting into my old coat so now it can always be close to my heart ;-) So I guess after wandering round in the Compaq wilderness and being guided by other Toshiba laptops to the ultimate peak in portable computing that is the Toshiba Libretto series, I'm a convert. Am I cleansed of my past sins and therefore able to join in the abuse of those who have turned away from the light? ;-) - Raymond ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
