Recommendations for new lappy .....

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

Need recommendations for a new lappy....prefer XP but 7 will do �360 max
....15 inch widescreen long batt life embedded sim facility .....not from a
spiv barrowboy......not mail order want to pick it up today

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Jimbo GM4DHJ ..." <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Need recommendations for a new lappy....prefer XP but 7 will do �360 max
> ....15 inch widescreen long batt life embedded sim facility .....not from
> a spiv barrowboy......not mail order want to pick it up today
>

hurry up now...I need to go out soon and get it .......

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Walt Davidson" <g3...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> You're not planning to buy a digital thingy, Jimbo ... shirley?
>
>
> 73 de Wlat
>
well out we go with no help in choosing then ..........

[Johnny Melvin]

"Jimbo GM4DHJ ..." <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Need recommendations for a new lappy....prefer XP but 7 will do �360 max
> ....15 inch widescreen long batt life embedded sim facility .....not from
> a spiv barrowboy......not mail order want to pick it up today

Hi Jim,

I just bought a notebook last week.
But more for portable/holiday use. N140 it is nice but only 10 inch
screen.
That's Samsung , I kind of trust that name now.
The earlier 110 is down to circa �220.

Because of other reasons I have not had a lot of time to play with it.
But I was concerned about Win7.
But MMTTY and DIGIPAN have gone on ok.

Like you I was going to stick with XP.
But if you look back in the forum you will see comments when I asked about
WIN7.
I have not loaded DM780 yet however.

My son Stephen G8UEE has always had HP and they are used every day.
And just keep rolling on but more expensive.

My younger son has a Target delivery franchise he says is forever delivering
replacements for DELL.

It is a mine field.

Best of luck.

Johnny G3LIV

[luc...@eternal-flames.gov]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:16:16 -0000, "Jimbo GM4DHJ ..."
<jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>well out we go with no help in choosing then ..........

Hello, Tosh.

[Paul Starship]

additions to spec:

1.
computer part needs to be analogue.
2.
also needs to be easily re-cyclable in approx 6 months.
3.
ability to plug into a 12v lighter socket would be nice.

[Richard G3CWI]

Paul Starship wrote:

> 1.
> computer part needs to be analogue.

Those were the days. I wonder how many people these days know what
op-amps were actually designed for?

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Always lots of amateur radio gear!

[Paul Starship]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:39:41 +0000, Richard G3CWI <g3...@tesco.net>
wrote:

>Those were the days. I wonder how many people these days know what
>op-amps were actually designed for?

Ask Jimbo.

[Brian Reay]

"Richard G3CWI" <g3...@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> Paul Starship wrote:
>
>> 1.
>> computer part needs to be analogue.
>
>
> Those were the days. I wonder how many people these days know what op-amps
> were actually designed for?

Analogue computing was part of my first degree course in the late 1970s.
One of my first work projects was related to replacing essentially analogue
computer circuitry with a digital equivalent.

--
73
Brian G8OSN/W8OSN
www.g8osn.net
Life is too short for cheap wine.

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Paul Starship" <p.bl...@google-nospam-email.com> wrote in message
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no idea but probably some bozo got the job of turning nice analogue
computers DIGITAL ...........

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

Sorry missed all those recommendations...so I had nothing to help me...so I
let her buy a shiny pink one........

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

> Indeed... But then again, unlike Jimbo, I wouldn't buy any new
> computer this side of Christmas, when waiting just a few days would
> mean buying at SALE prices.
>
> Nick.

quite right as well ......

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

> My son Stephen G8UEE has always had HP and they are used every day.
> And just keep rolling on but more expensive.
>
> My younger son has a Target delivery franchise he says is forever
> delivering
> replacements for DELL.
>
> It is a mine field.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Johnny G3LIV
>

I have found HP good ACER good ADVENT good DELL rubbish! ......

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Chronos" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Jimbo GM4DHJ ... wrote:
>
>> Sorry missed all those recommendations...so I had nothing to help me...so
>> I let her buy a shiny pink one...
>

> God's teeth, not a Dell? Please tell me you haven't bought a bloody DELL?
>
> So that's you reinstalling the OS to get rid of the crap/spyware over your
> "non-denominational winter holiday," then?

no I would never let anybody buy a dell...I have one next door and it takes
forever to do anything...and I have tried EVERYTHING to sort it out...next
move is out the back door with a box of matches ........

[Yeti]

Advent are absolute garbage. Followed by Packard Bell.

[Paul Starship]

Well about two years ago Dell lost 1st place to HP.
Market share, customer reports, batteries.

We have DELLs in work and they havent broken down at all.
Battery life is one thing that bugs me.

Only other problem so far is the cooling on the DELL LATITUDE 620
is the cooling fan, coling input/output is all just too close to each
other and too much of it is too close to table level.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfb/notebooks/latit_d620/pd.aspx?refid=latit_d620&cs=28&s=dfb

Me thinks - the DELL name adds a few bob onto the price tag.

Do Toshiba's still have the windows-key off up in the far right corner
or have they fixed that by putting it where every other keyboard has
it ?

I'd look at HP first.

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Yeti" <ye...@ayrshore.com> wrote in message
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well there is nothing wrong with our "his and hers" advent 4213 netbooks....
but then again I think they are made by ECS with 160GB SATA hard
drive.....not bad at �249 for the first one and �217 airside Dixons/Currys?
Glas Air for the second one ....

[Yeti]

Chronos wrote:

> Yeti wrote:
>
>> Advent are absolute garbage. Followed by Packard Bell.
>

> Au contraire, mon frere. Some of the Advents aren't bad machines, especially
> those ECS barebones machines that DSG just stuck the Advent moniker onto.
> You are, however, completely right about the Scrapyard Hells.
>
> Best lappy in the world? IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. No contest.

Panasonic Toughbook, by far.

[Len GM0ONX]

I have to agree with you on that one. I've had a few of them over the
last 10 years and they all still work!

[Jimbo GM4DHJ ...]

"Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <hgjefb$k36$1...@news.eternal-september.org>, Yeti says...

> If you don't mind lugging the extra weight.
>
that is why they call him Yeti .....

[Yeti]

Conor wrote:
> In article <hgjefb$k36$1...@news.eternal-september.org>, Yeti says...

> If you don't mind lugging the extra weight.
>

Certainly don't - it's damn near indestructable (I've launched it across
a room and driven a car over it), rainproof and the battery life is awesome.

The screen and speaker (mono) lets it down though - but it was never
meant to be a mulitmedia machine.

[Yeti]

Chronos wrote:

> Yeti wrote:
>
>>> Best lappy in the world? IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. No contest.
>> Panasonic Toughbook, by far.
>

> Under powered, impossible to get spares for, should I go on? I should warn
> you, I have had _TWO_ of them ;o)

Who needs spares - they don't break!

Underpowered? What model you got? Mine's OK - not a flying machine, but
plenty enough for me.

[Yeti]

Chronos wrote:

> Yeti wrote:
>
>> Who needs spares - they don't break!
>

> Does yours, for example, still have every port seal? And then there's the
> battery...
>

Yes, every port seal. The power input one is starting to suffer a bit,
and the battery does hold less of a charge than it used to - but they
are available.

>> Underpowered? What model you got? Mine's OK - not a flying machine, but
>> plenty enough for me.
>

> A CF-28 ages ago and a CF-52 more recently. True, power isn't everything,
> but for the so-so spec you are paying a huge premium for the magnesium alloy
> case and the silicone that encases the hard drive. Oh, and Intel Extreme
> Graphics aren't, unless it's the lower-end extreme. They may have the edge
> in processors right now, but their graphics solutions are woefully
> inadequate.
>
> The Toughbook has a niche where it is irreplaceable. What pass for BT
> engineers these days would go through Thinkpads at the rate of one a week at
> least :o)
>
> I suspect you're using yours with an OBD II interface, amongst other things,
> which is another area in which they excel. You are correct that they are
> very difficult to destroy. A little seawater spray doesn't seem to bother
> them either, providing you don't actually drop them in the drink, and they
> make ideal moving map displays. They also make good field day logging
> machines; B&Q paste tables never were designed to hold a full station off
> the ground for long...
>
> It all depends on what you're using them for. I suppose I shouldn't have
> made such a sweeping statement about Thinkpads either, especially given
> Lenovo's propensity for bundling their own special brand of adware with them
> these days.

Mine's a CF-29, Mk5 with DDR2 RAM. Granted, the graphics are crap, but
it runs Command and Conquer: Generals and Hitman: Contracts, so that'll
do. The fact it has a real serial port is another reason I have no
intention of replacing it - both for OBDII, Vag-Com (VW group specific
OBD), and also for programming older PMR rigs (Kenwood TK-709 and
Motorola GP300 being the most common ones that won't work with Windows
or a USB serial port).