Paul nospam needed.com wrote:

RayLopez99 wrote:

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I think the newsgroup lines in your USENET client must be
broken.

lol

Do understand, Ray is a Google Groups user...

You're supposed to fill them with appropriate selections of
newsgroups.

And really, you're familiar with computers already. Not a noob.
Just go to a web site that will accept your credit card, get a
computer with plenty of cores. Done. It's not like you have a
lot of choice in laptops. They're all "cut from the same cloth".

The major difference is probably upgrades/service difficulties.
The simple answer is probably "the more you spend, the closer you
get to a desktop replacement".

Going further off topic, and getting smaller...

Currently, a handheld like the iPhone and others hardly even do
copy and paste. They are interesting though, if you don't mind
making payments for two years. Besides a mobile phone, they
function as various other handheld devices, with $2 software. For
example... A GPS (very useful here, with the iPhone's big display
screen). A radio scanner (plug your speaker minijack into the
earphone output, stream music from the Internet through your
wireless router, to save smartphone bandwith, and you have hi-fi
FM stereo radio). A barcode scanner (going to try that one soon,
like for comparing prices at the store by scanning the barcode and
then looking it up using the built-in Internet connectivity). A
television schedule. Some might find it very useful for Internet
messaging. Maybe a few other significant applications, and a dozen
lesser applications. It is growing on me. It is useful for doing
little computing stuff especially when my desktop computer is off.
And then there is the weather radar. Before I got a smart phone, I
was thinking how cool it would be to have weather radar,
especially for in-line street skating. I had noticed some fancy
car commercial that appeared to have five day forecast weather
displayed on the dashboard screen. Then I got the smart phone and
noticed it had weather applications. A recent application is
called WeatherScope (maybe USA only). You can get it for your PC
for free from Oklahoma University (it takes some configuring). And
they made a version for the iPhone. It is $10, but it rocks. When
you turn on the iPhone and tap the WeatherScope application icon,
using almost all of the screen, it downloads the most recent
rainfall radar frame/picture for the location you had last
displayed. Tap a single control button, and it downloads and
displays an animated view of the most recent rainfall for that
favorite location. I thought that technology was years away, not
realizing the availability and application of handheld Internet
connectivity.
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If you want to live in luxury, install a 2.5" SSD in it.

Paul