-=PCTechTalk=- Re: general advice on a laptop
- From: Foxhillers@xxxxxxx
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:43:21 EST
In a message dated 12/31/03 7:32:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
inquisitive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> sorry I caused your system to freeze up :-( See you are using it for the
> same reason I want to use it - thank you for explaining the SXGA, UXGA and
> W - I doubt I would be watching a DVD on it unless I suppose I was on a
> trip, in a hotel and bored but heck even when I took my eastern European
> trip last summer all the hotels had tv (maybe not in English except for CNN)
> so tha wouldn't be a big requirement.
>>>> Dolores, you can watch DVDs on either of the machines I mentioned....
they come with DVD players, just the screen is not wide angled.
I know this is going to sound really
>
> ignorant but I am - you threw some more alphabets in here - what does FSB
> stand for? I just know it is going to be something really simple and I'll
> hit myself in the forehead and say "duh!" but I'm going to ask anyhow.
>>> FSB = front side bus, which is the speed the system operates at. Most
Compaq, HP, DELL, IBM and Sony's are still 400 or 533 FSB, considerably slower.
Now
>
> the ones you got by bidding, were they refurbished or new?
>
>>> The last one I got from ubid.com 3.5 years ago was a refurbed Gateway
Solo 9150. Came with a 90 warranty. Some refurb places offer a year or more
warranty.
There was a
>
> letter today in the paper to either Dear Ann or Dear Abby about someone who
> got shafted by bidding but it sounded like they were just plain ignorant and
> didn't use common sense.
>>> It's necessary to know your vendor and their policies, whether local or
distant. And, purchase using a credit card, just in case.... I am comfortable
with the two vendors I listed. In fact, 12 years ago, via mailorder, I got a
lunchtop portable from what is now Sager.
Oh sorry I took awhile to get back but was eating
>
> my heart attack causing but yummy chicken wings for NYE :-)
>>> For me it will be pickled herring with rye bread and champagne with
caviar!
Bad backs are no fun.........
Now I'll go
>
> check out your info also - thanks! Dolores
> ----- Original Message -----
MJH
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