Laptops?

[Grant Lamontagne]

I see the buggers everywhere nowadays, and with the prices dropping as rapidly as they did it's obvious why.

I have a Dell Vostro 1000 with a 15.4" screen and an Acer Aspire One netbook with an 8.9" screen.  Who's got a laptop and what have you got? 

Def

[Whoey]

We just bought a 15.6" (HP) Compaq CQ61-110ES

[cliosguy]

I got mine a couple of years ago a dell xps m1210 of 12.1" i really like it and im thinking about getting a netbook one of these days...those things are so cute

[Whoey]

I really wanted a 13.3 samsung or similar, but for the price I could have got two of the one I did get, and had enough change left over for a couple cases of beer... and anything smaller would have been find for me, but the wife thought they were too small to work on.

[Roadie]

I got a Packard Bell something or other from work, and for office and web browsing it's fine but that's all I'm willing to do on it. Watching dvds isn't a pleasant experience the screen just doesn't do them justice But then I've got my desktop for doing fun stuff on I'd like a small laptop a 13" screen seems about right to me

[Mr. Whippy]

Fujitsu Tablet/notebook at home (T4215 I think).

Fujitsu U810 at work.  Basically a super netbook.  Have the docking station and huge external HD.  It functions as my desktop/mobile computer.   Actually shipped it on mule back during a climb once.

The BossLady has a Mac Pro.

[rp252]

Macbook.  Great little laptop.

[JohnD]

I have a 17 inch Toshiba Equium. I mainly use it at home. I also have a little Acer 8.9 inch Acer that i use when i go on courses etc

[Medic82]

crap Acer crap Aspire crap 5100 crap



did I say it was crap? Well it's crap. Well, it's really crap Vista crap that is crap but it's crap Acer's crap fault that there is no XP driver for the WLAN card and I learned that the hard way.

Crap.

[Pacu]

I bought a Compaq last year for $399. I added 2 more gigs of memory so it's up to 3 now. Dual core/Vista Home Premium. My wife uses it mainly to play Chuzzle and Zuma on. I use it mainly when i travel to watch Hulu and surf the internet.

On a side note ..you would be amazed at how many people don't secure their Wi Fi

[Benner]

I have a Toshiba Satellite which has low spec but a good build.  The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo.  I'll have to take some pics of my "repair". 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I have a Toshiba Satellite which has low spec but a good build.  The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo.  I'll have to take some pics of my "repair". 

Does it involve a bit of silver chewing gum wrapper and a Rizla paper

[Benner]

I have a Toshiba Satellite which has low spec but a good build.  The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo.  I'll have to take some pics of my "repair". 

Does it involve a bit of silver chewing gum wrapper and a Rizla paper

You have no idea how close you actually are! 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I have a Toshiba Satellite which has low spec but a good build.  The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo.  I'll have to take some pics of my "repair". 

Does it involve a bit of silver chewing gum wrapper and a Rizla paper

You have no idea how close you actually are! 

Let me guess, I forgot to mention cling film and gaffer tape

[Benner]

I have a Toshiba Satellite which has low spec but a good build.  The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo.  I'll have to take some pics of my "repair". 

Does it involve a bit of silver chewing gum wrapper and a Rizla paper

You have no idea how close you actually are! 

Let me guess, I forgot to mention cling film and gaffer tape

Gaffer tape! Bingo!! 

[cryptrick]

crap Acer crap Aspire crap 5100 crap



did I say it was crap? Well it's crap. Well, it's really crap Vista crap that is crap but it's crap Acer's crap fault that there is no XP driver for the WLAN card and I learned that the hard way.

Crap.

The Acer 5100 does have Wireless Drivers (me just checked )

The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo

Agree with you there, Acers build quality is not the best   Its been like that for a number of years.

[Neil]

I've got an Asus Eee 901.  We don't really get on.  Its size makes it very convenient and the battery life is just astounding but I so wish I'd bought one with an old fashioned hard drive rather than SSD

My wife has some out of the ark Samsung that we really should have replaced three or four years back and my boys with have some generic old POS that I was given and need to fashion some means of holding the screen to the base for    Don't look at me like that they're four and six, I'd rather they trash something that's already trash

[Medic82]

crap Acer crap Aspire crap 5100 crap



did I say it was crap? Well it's crap. Well, it's really crap Vista crap that is crap but it's crap Acer's crap fault that there is no XP driver for the WLAN card and I learned that the hard way.

Crap.

The Acer 5100 does have Wireless Drivers (me just checked )

I could not get the XP driver to work and when I google the problem I found forum after forum where people had the same problem that I had and every answer was that there was no XP suported driver because Aspire 5100 never was intended to be solde with XP

The wifes Acer has great spec but the build quality is poo

Agree with you there, Acers build quality is not the best  Its been like that for a number of years.
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[Benner]

There is no saving hers. 

[Pacu]

I've got an Asus Eee 901.  We don't really get on.  Its size makes it very convenient and the battery life is just astounding but I so wish I'd bought one with an old fashioned hard drive rather than SSD

My wife has some out of the ark Samsung that we really should have replaced three or four years back and my boys with have some generic old POS that I was given and need to fashion some means of holding the screen to the base for    Don't look at me like that they're four and six, I'd rather they trash something that's already trash

What's wrong with the SSD drive? not big enough? my 32 gig works wonders

[Neil]

I've got an Asus Eee 901.  We don't really get on.  Its size makes it very convenient and the battery life is just astounding but I so wish I'd bought one with an old fashioned hard drive rather than SSD

My wife has some out of the ark Samsung that we really should have replaced three or four years back and my boys with have some generic old POS that I was given and need to fashion some means of holding the screen to the base for    Don't look at me like that they're four and six, I'd rather they trash something that's already trash

What's wrong with the SSD drive? not big enough? my 32 gig works wonders

Whilst size does matter and I could certainly use an increase in capacity my main issue is speed, or lack thereof

[Grant Lamontagne]

The SSD in my Aspire One is pretty darned good... although Windows (and Linux on my machine) are set up for a standard HD, but there's a setting somewhere that optimizes it for SSD instead, so you may want to look that up.

Def

[Poncho65]

I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 15.4  It has been a great little laptop I think we have had it 2 years now and I am very pleased with it but I mainly use the desktop an HP as well

[Zack]

SOny Vaio for me and Gatewat for my wife.  Both gave 2gigs, 120 gig HD, and Dual core processors.  Never really had any trouble out of any of them.

[Chako]

I currently have an Acer Aspire 8920. It replaced my first gen Asus Eee 701 4G. That one only had a 4Gig SSD! I got annoyed trying to do marking on a 7" screen that could not support 800x600.

The 8920 suits me fine, even though I have to lug it around all day. No pain...no gain! 

[665ae]

I've got a 17" Dell Inspiron, a 10" Asus eeePc 1000, a 15" Dell Inspiron, and a 15" IBM Lenovo Tablet... (the tablet's my wife's though)

[Woz]

MacBook here. 13 inch, aluminium unibody. Nice one!
Used an iBook before, and have an eeePC for backup.

[Whoey]

I currently have an Acer Aspire 8920. It replaced my first gen Asus Eee 701 4G. That one only had a 4Gig SSD! I got annoyed trying to do marking on a 7" screen that could not support 800x600.

The 8920 suits me fine, even though I have to lug it around all day. No pain...no gain! 

I have a friend who jumped blindly into that one too... they got the first generation EEE... it's irritated me to no end that it wouldn't do a somewhat normal resolution without the "zoom" mode or whatever... useless...

our new laptop is a bit wierd as it's 15.6 inch, and does 1366x768 resolution...

[Nikos]

Aspire 1692wlmi and a 12'' alox Powerbook G4. Kind of oldish and slackish but they get the job done. Plus, if I need speed or graphics, I can throw the task at one of the dozen or so boxes hanging around...