Hi Everyone
On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
Anyone have experience with using laptops on the buses?
I have a graphite iBook, and I used it every morning and afternoon
going to and from work for two years from Bentley to West Perth. The
biggest problem I had was opening the screen wide enough to be able to
use it. There's not a lot of space between you and the seat in front.
The seating on the newer (Renault?) buses is even more cramped, unless
you can sit on the first tier up the back - then your laptop screen
merely bounces off the head of the passenger in front of you :)
I think the only problem you'll have is wear and tear on the screen.
After doing this for a couple of years, I've found that my display goes
green as I shut the lid, so I'm thinking that I'll need to get the
display cable changed one day in the not-too-distant future.
Oh, and maybe the cdrom drive too. I can't play DVD's in my machine
anymore, probably because the chassis has twisted from being lugged
about everywhere in my laptop backpack. I upgrade the drive a year
ago, and DVD's started playing again, so I assume that when the
technician opened it up, everything sprang back into place.
YMMV
Regards,
Paul.
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Paul W. Mulroney
Logical Developments
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 86 Coolgardie Street
www.logicaldevelopments.com.au BENTLEY WA 6102
Ph: +61 8 9458 3889 ICQ# 154484472 Fax: +61 8 9458 7204
