[thelist] laptop purchase

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Tue May 11 08:03:18 CDT 2004


On 11 May 2004, at 13:54, Dan McCullough wrote:
> Looking to purchase a laptop for someone else.  I have been burnt by
> laptops before and usually only go with the Toshiba or IBM Thinkpad.
> They need something that will work easy (non-tech people, somewhat
> computer literate), and not have much problem.  So I was looking at a
> Dell with Windows XP Home.  Also they have a budget.
>
> Here is what they need it for.  Audio recording and burning, power 
> point
> presentations and a few other small things.  They would also like to
> possibly burn Digital Video.

I'd give some serious consideration to an Apple Powerbook.

<tip type="Bandwidth + Security" author="David Dorward">

Use rsync and ssh to quickly and securely upload files
from your test / development system to your remote server.

</tip>

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