Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

->  MK> Laptops are overpriced pieces of junk.  Just a shrunken down PC.

-> As much as I like the idea of portability,  I've been very much put 
-> off by what I've seen out there for laptops...

-> Absurdly low run times,  all proprietary hardware,  and limited
-> expandability so you better get what features you want when you buy 
-> it in the first place.

-> I think I'll still wait a while before I go ahead and get one.  :-)

 TW>  If you don't have a real Need for one it is just an Expensive TOY.
 TW> BUT if you do have that need there is Nothing presently avialble
 TW> that can replace it. 

Need?  No.  About the only application I can think of that I'd *like* one
for would be mapping,  maybe with GPS added,  in a vehicle.  And that'd
still fall into the "neat toy" category,  for the time being.

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