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Best desktop replacement laptop? Any advice appreciated
Paul nospam needed.com wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote: .... 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. -- If you want to live in luxury, install a 2.5" SSD in it. Paul |
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