I went from a Thinkpad to a Latitude when I changed jobs. The Latitude's trackpoint is terrible compared to the Thinkpad. The left button can't be pressed with the thumb without convoluting the hand, and there is no way to scroll.
I ended up forcing myself to switch to the touchpad.
This is my 5th Dell notebook, and that was my 3rd Thinkpad. IMHO, Thinkpads are WAY better.
I can tell you first hand that long-term usage is bad. I did this for a couple of months and ended up in physical therapy. A good straight-back chair is what you want.
Umm I picked up one for my kids at Microcenter for $279 after a $100 rebate [...] and it did have vista at least for an hour or so before I paved it. So does that mean it would have cost $79 without Vista preinstalled?
Another example of someone too smart to explain things to us regl'r folk.
Here's how I used to explain it to 4th-graders: I would tell them to blink their eyes. Then I would tell them that in that very short time their eyes were closed -- 1/100 of a second (roughly) -- a computer added two numbers together 10 million times. It was a jaw-dropper.
10, 20, 50 million -- doesn't matter. These large numbers are too large for us to distinguish. Saying 1 million would have had the same effect.
Ok, so the IBM is twice as fast as the competition. Say it that way.
This whole problem of people talking loudly on a cell phone is due to a fundamental flaw in cell phone design. In the old-style AT&T wired phones, your voice was fed back to the handset receiver, so you could hear yourself when you're talking.
With cell phones, this doesn't happen, so you feel like you need to speak loud enough to hear yourself. Which is louder than a normal conversation because you're covering one ear.
Why cell phone manufacturers don't feed back your voice to the receiver, I don't know.
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Its in my 20q game.
I usually walk right out if I get the "You just did" response. Life is too short for this kind of aggravation.
Question: so what am I doing here?
I ended up forcing myself to switch to the touchpad.
This is my 5th Dell notebook, and that was my 3rd Thinkpad. IMHO, Thinkpads are WAY better.
I can tell you first hand that long-term usage is bad. I did this for a couple of months and ended up in physical therapy. A good straight-back chair is what you want.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
In space, no one can hear you sue.
Another example of someone too smart to explain things to us regl'r folk.
Here's how I used to explain it to 4th-graders: I would tell them to blink their eyes. Then I would tell them that in that very short time their eyes were closed -- 1/100 of a second (roughly) -- a computer added two numbers together 10 million times. It was a jaw-dropper.
10, 20, 50 million -- doesn't matter. These large numbers are too large for us to distinguish. Saying 1 million would have had the same effect. Ok, so the IBM is twice as fast as the competition. Say it that way.
This whole problem of people talking loudly on a cell phone is due to a fundamental flaw in cell phone design. In the old-style AT&T wired phones, your voice was fed back to the handset receiver, so you could hear yourself when you're talking.
With cell phones, this doesn't happen, so you feel like you need to speak loud enough to hear yourself. Which is louder than a normal conversation because you're covering one ear.
Why cell phone manufacturers don't feed back your voice to the receiver, I don't know.
Except that Pandora is in danger of going away for the same reason.