SR>> I am not either but I am startiong to find that I am away from
 SR>> home a lot and need access to my emails etc

 MK> That is the usual reason for buying laptops although in this neck of
 MK> the woods quite a few people are using them on boats for GPS, etc.
 MK> The thing with that usage is that most GPS recievers output to serial
 MK> and new laptops don't have serial ports anymore and the USB->serial
 MK> adapters are really, really flakey.  The mobile boxes I am playing
 MK> with have serial ports so none of this is an issue to me personally
 MK> and only serves as another good reason why I don't like or have a use
 MK> for laptops.  A personal thing I suppose and I imagine that regular
 MK> people find laptops attractive and useful.  Not me.  I can do better.
 MK> :-)

I'd like to have a laptop so I could sit outside with it in the summer. I had
one once and sat out on the porch all of the time with it. Of course it didn't
have a hard drive and I had to do everything on floppy disks, but it worked.
:-)

Sharon

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