-=PCTechTalk=- Re: pctechtalk Digest V6 #245

G-Man, I've been cooking with gas since getting my new power supply.  All is 
well for now.   *smile*

I use my laptop mostly for going to relatives' houses with my genealogy files.  
Sometimes I bring my scanner to scan in old family pics that someone might 
have.  Other than that, I would LIKE to be able to do some digital scrapbooking 
on it.  My current laptop is old, doesn't have the RAM, processing power, or 
hard drive space to store very many graphics.  

I have also been reading for some time that Intel passed AMD up and is holding 
that spot for now.  I know gamers like AMD chips, but I don't game.  My 
scrapbooking projects don't require moving video.  I really want to downsize a 
tad and get something a little smaller and lighter than what I have, so I'm 
looking at 14.1" screens.  I found a good deal on an HP that comes with 3GB RAM 
and a Core 2 Duo, but it only has Vista 32 bit on it and won't be able to take 
advantage of the 4 GB maximum RAM capacity.  This disappoints me.  The touchpad 
stayed nice and cool on this one.  I do most of my graphics on my desktop, but 
I'd like to be able to do it on my laptop if I want to demonstrate it to 
someone else, or go on a trip, or bring it to class where we teach PSP and 
digital scrapbooking.  It would be much easier to take the laptop with 
everything already on it and my program already tweaked to my liking than to 
have to bring external media and use someone else's program that is not tweaked 
to my liking.  I won't be using it every day.

Are there any specific brands that I should definitely stay away from?  My 
current laptop is a Toshiba and is in mint condition.

dj


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