[Tfug] Re: Laptop

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:00:32PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:32:34AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:17:13AM -0700, Anthony Hess wrote:
> > I haven't had any problems taking my TiBook around campus yet.  Nor have
> > I heard of any problems with it being 'less rugged'.
>   You havn't seen mine recently then. I'm pretty sure some of the "battle
> scars" on my polycarbonate would have required a replaement with a TiBook.

Well, I mjust might be able to make it to a meeting again someday, so
I'll take a look-see then. :)

>   Do you keep yours in a case? I don't. It would just be something else to
> carry around.  I usually carry mine around by itself or at most, stack some
> stuff on it for easier carrying.  Staqcks of tapes, the firewire drive, etc.
> Nothing too big but nothing I'd want to move around on a TiBook one handed.

I've got mine in a plain old laptop bag, along with all of the other
stuff I need to have at class.  And I'm actually over-cautious with
mine, just 'cuz it cost so much. :)

> > It is more expensive, but look at the screen. :)
>   It's a bit bigger, but I don't think it looks any better than mine.

I dunno.  Maybe I'm just too used to my big CRT and whatnot, but when I
had an ibook, the only problem I had was that the screen (and 1024x768)
was just too smallf or my tastes.  1280x854 looks nice on this.  And the
s-video out is handy from time to time now too.

> ...the G4 would be nice though.

That's the other reason I got this.  AltiVec isn't as well used as it
coudl be under Linux yet, but it makes some things _slick_ under OS X.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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