Re: OMG! It's Thin! Thin!

On Jan 16, 3:51 am, -hh <recscuba_goo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Belphegor <hue...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I must warn you... consistently antagonising Slade by opposing his
opinion will get you 'filtered' by his newsreader... which means he
will only read your posts when he 'sneaks a peek' via Google
Newsgroups!

I don't really give a damn...if Slade can't take the heat, then he
should have enough sense to stay out of the kitchen.

My comment was based on how much of a nuisance it has been for me to
lug around a laptop on many, many business trips, which happens to be
an IBM T41p Thinkpad.

Its become highlighted to me some as I've just gotten a new T61
Thinkpad to replace the T41p.  Weight-wise, I think they're lying that
it only supposedly weighs 5.4lbs (same as the T41p).  Maybe it does if
I take off its battery pack!

Consequently, I'm actually thinking about keeping my old T41p and give
away the T61 to someone who doesn't have as much travel experience to
know better.

John's running because he can't explain how a difference in customer
priorities can somehow be completely written off as "wrong",
particularly when it has nothing to do with the OS on the computer.

You are doomed :D

Heaven forbid anyone  say anything to counter poor Johnny Hypocrite.
I'd not be surprised if I flew more miles just last year alone than
Johnny's done in his entire life, but you never know:  maybe his mom &
dad had given him more than a dozen trips to Hawaii :-)

-hh

I am ever so glad I don't have to carry a laptop anymore, because I
was ever so worried about leaving it on the tube somewhere when
freelancing in London.

But I understand your concerns about the weight, I also don't see how
some people conceive a contradiction between the terms 'fashionable'
and 'practical'.

Good industrial design has always been about a combination of the two,
however there will always be a constituency who will prefer the
rugged, more manly, suitcase look to anything that looks even slightly
decent. I guess if you are used to clobber together your own kit you
feel worried about anything you can not take apart and together again
with a wrench and a screwdriver.

Personally my favourite laptop was the very first iBook, with the
funny handle. However the clam-shell design was extremely hard-wearing
and served my well on trips to Brazil, where it was sturdy enough to
be thrown in the back of a buggy in Bahia, resting in nothing more
fancy than a back-pack.

The Ti-Book had been dropped on the floor many times in busy offices
around the City and even had beer spillt on it on one occasion, which
surprisingly required nothing more than a keyboard replacement.

Do they still have that little 'nipple' pointer thingy on the
ThinkPads? That used to be an an incredibly good alternative to a
trackpad, as far as I remember... mind you, it's probably 20 years ago
since I last had the opportunity to use one.
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