Well you can only lead a horse to water can't you !! On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Price <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote:
> She got one for christmas and doesn't use it. (I think its a stable table > clone. I wouldn't use it either). Pillows are so much handier... lol > > will have a look at a real stable table and see if they are any nicer than > the horrible thing she got. The thought was there... (no, I didn't buy it) > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Grant Molloy <graken...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Stephen, >> Get her a stable table.. She sits it on her legs, and the laptop sits on a >> flat surface allowing the vents to breath !! >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Price >> <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote: >> >>> Thank goodness! Hell ugly laptops. Always have been. Maybe i'm just >>> superficial. :) >>> >>> I was looking at the Vostro V130 Wallace recommended. Looks very nice. I >>> get these Dell emails about the Vostro's all the time and to be honest I've >>> always been underimpressed by them. I look at the business range and compare >>> them to the XPS's or the Studio laptops and wonder if i'm missing something. >>> Are the business laptops more targetted at the people who just use word and >>> excel or something? >>> >>> Shopping around for a laptop my wife can use at the moment... The way she >>> currently uses her (my old) XPS m1210, it needs to be small, light and NOT >>> have all its fans on the bottom. It runs at 100% cpu a lot and I think its >>> because she sits it on her lap on a pillow. Poor thing gets so damn hot >>> having its air vents smothered by a pillow. I dare not say anything in case >>> i'm next. (I'm kidding, I do dare saying something a lot. If I dissapear >>> suddenly you'll know why...) >>> Does the V130 have any vents on the bottom? It looks like there's one at >>> the back but they have no pics of the bottom of the laptop on their site. It >>> looks pretty slick laptop actually... I didn't see any options to configure >>> it with an SSD hard drive. Ah well probably better to get an after market >>> one anyway. >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Noon Silk <noonsli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Price >>>> <step...@littlevoices.com> wrote: >>>> > Is it me or do the Lenovo laptops look exactly the same as they did 20 >>>> years >>>> > ago? >>>> >>>> It's not just you. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Noon Silk >>>> >>>> http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | >>>> http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > >>>> >>>> Fancy a quantum lunch? >>>> http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch >>>> >>>> "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy >>>> of being this signature." >>>> >>> >>> >> >
