RE: Notebook Choices

Thanks Dave !

They are going to be used for MS Office, the Cisco VPN client and a very
small footprint 5250 emulation package (from Synapse) to allow sales folks
to enter orders when on the road. So lightweight and durable is important.
Real powerful it not.

Chuck

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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Notebook Choices

Here's my $0.02

Here at work we use Dells.  I've had one for two years and have been happy
with it.  It has a well laid-out keyboard and both a touch pad and pointing
stick as well as mouse buttons in two locations.  We used to use Toshiba's
and they've had their share of problems although some did OK.  Some were
Tectra's but can't say for sure if they all were.  At home I've got a
Fujitsu on loan from a University where I'm working on a MBA.  It does OK
but it's nothing special and occasionally either the keyboard either
hiccups or is small enough that my fat fingers hit something that was
unintended.  Still, it has built-in wired and wireless networking.  The
only thing more that I would want from it is a DVD writeable drive instead
of just a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive.  It's also without a floppy but that hasn't
been an issue.

Having said that I would ask what you want to do with them.  Word, Excel,
Powerpoint, 5250 emulation, or are you after something that needs more
horsepower?  Do they need to be ultra portable and lightweight or is cost
more an issue?  Grab the past six months of Maximum PC magazine and read
the product reviews.  They write reviews that are actually meaningful,
practical, and fun to read.  The reviews were helpful for me when I built a
couple of desktops last year.


Dave