Head Up - Cheapy Laptops
Submitted: Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:01
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HGMonaro
occasionly there's a question on the various vanning/etc forums about cheapo laptops. BigW have one on sale this week.
Lenovo C200 (made by IBM)
1.7G Intel processor (ok)
512MB memory (good for budget laptop)
80GB hard drive (excellent for budget laptop)
Dual Layer DVD burner (excellent)
multi-format card reader (for dumping digicam photos onto laptop)
IE1394 (Firewire) (good for connecting DV cameras)
several of USB ports (on side.. easy to plug things in)
Network (Cat5 cable port and wireless.. not sure of exact specs)
Finger print reader (no idea of usefullness of this yet)
15" screen
Win XP
Home
various software incl Corel Wordperfect (wordprocessing... most peropl use Word these days but this will get you started). Not sure what else
$798
Bought one this morning :)
Cheers, Nige
Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 13:24
Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 13:24
What, no bluetooth for the mobile phone and GPS?
I use open office now for word processing etc, it's free, and compatible to word.
www.openoffice.org.
Not bad price.
Still, one of the usual bargains for the back to school laptops that are around this time of year.
Always thought that as computers drop in price, if I held off long enough I would get one for free. It doesn't seem to happen. :o)
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Follow Up By: Max - Sydney - Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 15:48
Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 15:48
Oldplodder
Just to nit pick! I too am waiting for laptops to be free, but in the meantime I tried OpenOffice on the desktop. It sort of works like Office, but only superficially. I do a bit of voluntary work, and drove to distraction the people with whom I exchange documents.
Formatting, and particularly tables, simply did not survive filing in .doc format. The organisation I volunteer for finally gave me one copy of their contract copy of Office. That saved me a fortune it would have cost to buy it, but I see it is a lot cheaper now than then.
Max
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