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I need help choosing a new laptop (again?!)!; Again.
Topic Started: Aug 6 2008, 07:06 PM (605 Views)
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No kiddin'. My office PC is an IBM.
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IBM Desktops, I have used before but I can't see how people survive with IBM Laptops so many years back.

Must have been the 'only choice'.
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People stick to branded shit like flies.

Sort of like how I chose VAIO because I like the brand and not the battery power, light weight, performance, small amount of maintenance or anything that merits a purchase. OH WAIT LOL
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If DIY laptops are as commercially feasible as DIY desktop computers, I'm sure we would be armed with a couple of them right now.
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Maybe, maybe. Laptop components do cost a shitload more though.
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At least the laptops themselves will be upgradable.
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Of course, that would defeat the purpose if not so.
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Besides external hot-swappables such as PCMCIA/USB/HDMI/Serial/Parallel ports, the only other two that I know of would be RAM and for some models, the battery pack*.

* Some systems I know run on an auxillary 5 minute life without its primary battery, therefore allowing for hot-swapping though it only seems to be apparent on relatively newer models since 2003 (?).
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2003? I dunno, the aux batt option has been available since 1998 mobile phones.
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I didn't know much nor had interest in phones at that time so I didn't check to that level of detail.

As for laptops, I need a direct citation for my claim.
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Oh, it's just an emergency feature. Sort of like the auto-dial that gets you the local police force of whichever country you're in.
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Ah, that kind.

I need more USB ports. Switching for external HDDs, my tablet, scanner, printer and PSP is getting harder to pick between.
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One reason why I choose VAIO is the built in card reader. PSP can go charge in a wall while I edit the mem stick. USB ports, alas, are rare on small notebooks.
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Same thing with HEUG-2 and "Dystylus".
It'll be a pain to need an extra device to connect EEPROMs to the system for access.

For long term stationary use, having those powered USB HUBs does not seem such a bad idea until your system starts acting funny from the sheer numbers of them (8+ for a single HUB).

Those things are best for reserved appliances such as secondary external HDDs from what I know, while the mouse, tablet and other constantly used input devices take up the on-board USB ports.

What do you think?
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For stationed use, mouse and "power charging" (PSP, DS, etc) can go in the same slot, unless your mouse is some kind of power whore (even the Razer ones I'm using don't need much). HDDs are better off with their own slots if you're watching movies, playing games, etc off them. If not, and you're just saving/moving stuff onto them, 2 per slot is already maximum for me without risk of feeding insufficient energy.
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It's not the power I'm concerned with as much as the 'priority' of handling signals.
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In which case, a mouse will always take priority over a charging device.
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As well as 'periodic use' equipment such as scanners or printers where data processing needs no 'realtime' response.
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Dah. Communist printers share everything.
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Communist computers are made from INDUSTRIAL STEEL unlike Amelican printers made of weak plastic!
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But steel corrodes...
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But in Soviet Russia, corrosion becomes steel!
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Oxygen, what have you done to it?
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Maybe they used it for Borscht, just like Andrey Kalinin.
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Bad cooking?
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