Big Laptop Spiral

[drcpunk]

My Asus laptop is starting to die, I think. Apart from the power issue, it no longer goes online. And, the dvd player now seems unwilling to read even a dvd it burned. Ah well.

So, I'm wanting something with XP -- or possibly linux, but not Vista! And, I'd like it to have a built in cd / dvd /read / writable drive. A nice big hard drive would be cool too. A swivel screen would be nifty. And under 5 pounds is best.

mnemex found something close. 60 gb hard drive isn't big, but under 3 pounds, swivel screen, and build in cd / dvd / et ceteera drive. Unfortunately, it is Vista, which I detest. I'm thinking I should go more laptop and less netbook for the laptop. We shall see. First, though, time to back everything up with multiple redundancy and see if restoring to factory condition will help.

Comments

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

See if you can get a Vista machine that comes with a downgrade (or "downgrade", if you wish) to XP; a fair number of business computers do. I'm not 100% certain if laptops come with the option, but my company sells desktops with it.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I'll see. I'm not sure if it is still possible, but I'd like that.

[jl8e]

That may be pricey -- my understanding is you need Vista business or ultimate for the downgrade rights.

My opinion is that, if you have to give up on the OS you're comfortable with anyway, you should considera Mac.

Also IMO, that machine you describe above is probably too far down in netbook territory -- it's likely to have an anemic CPU which will leave Vista running sluggishly. (Unless it's priced like Josh's machine.)

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Nod. We'll need to look at what's out there.