[ale] And now, on topic - laptop hardware recommendations

[scott]

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I have a dell mini9 that I have had for over a year and the person I
bought it from got it right after the mini9s started shipping and it has
been the best little thing on the planet.  Whenever I travel that is
what I take as my laptop. Unless I travel by car then I take it and my
real laptop.  On the airplane there is never enough room to open up a
full sized laptop and use it. But the mini9 works perfectly.  I even did
the first draft of a presentation I did on it mid flight.  Yeah I had to
go back and touch up the slides from small to normal sized but I was
able to get all the content/flow of the preso in there.  Thursday I
flight up north to go to the paintball tourney.  And I will be taking my
mini9 (no not on the field...)

Scott

Daniel Howard wrote:
> I third/fourth the Dell recommendation, although they recently got into 
> trouble for shipping bad motherboards on the Optiplex:
> 
> http://gizmodo.com/5576237/dell-knowingly-sold-118-million-computers-with-a-97-failure-rate
> 
> I'm about to buy a netbook for my daughter (her 2+ yr old eeePC was 
> killed by a 40+ lb backpack that dropped on top of it at the end of this 
> school year...), and I checked out Consumer reports and they said what I 
> felt, the two best choices are still the eeePC and the Dell Mini, I'm 
> going to get one of those for her.
> 
> Daniel
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