On Sun, Oct 05, 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: ... >You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested >Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking >them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that >is just about indestructable. I saw one demonstrated one time where the sales >rep slid a closed laptop off a desk onto the concrete apron at poolside. He >did this over and over again during his sales pitch. At the end of the speech >he dipped it into the pool and opened... it proceded to boot and work >perfectly. Try that with your run of the mill laptop... ;')
Sounds like just what I need for our Auction application, what we refer to as the ``Hankproof 2000'' (Hank has a tendency to be hard on equipment :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. -- H.L. Mencken, ``Minority Report'' _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
