JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JP>         
 JP>          Good day to you, Roy.

 RJT> I have a thought of getting a laptop from time to time,  but haven't
 RJT> decided to yet.  It's just not that much of an issue with me.  And it
 RJT> probably won't be for some time yet.

 JP>  Roy, I saw your reply to        and do let me pipe in. I would not
 JP> be  without a laptop. These machine are just as powerful as most
 JP> desktop  and the only clitch that I have found is that the
 JP> numerical pad is a bit awkward to use.

I wonder if anybody even makes one that has a "real" keyboard...

 JP> I have had up to 8 Thinkpads over the years, of many models and 
 JP> configurations.

What'd you do with the old ones?  :-)

 JP> This one here now runs an 800 MHz CPU and I can not type that 
 JP> fast.

Neither can I,  though I can probably load things up to use that much CPU.

 JP> It has 196 Mgs of RAM and in MY use, I never fill it up.

I was surprised a little bit ago when things started getting sluggish to
see that I was using over 100M of swap!  Not doing much of anything
different than what I usually do,  either.

 JP> In a word, it does all that my desktop will do and is portable.
 JP> It follows me all over the world and I move a lot. The next one 
 JP> that I will get will have an RW+ DVD for safe keeping.

I haven't gotten into DVD yet,  though I think it would be handy to be able
to read them (for maps and such) or at least to have a cdrom drive onboard.

 JP>  I got this one on eBay at $305.00 when new it was IBM list priced
 JP> at  $1449.00, one year old. The 'amateur' seller could not even use
 JP> Windows.

Not a bad price,  that one,  not at all.

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