Hello all, Firstly, I live in England, so without being rude, some ideas may not be available in the UK. I am after a portable method of carrying my FTM file around the various 'study centres' during my research travels, and am hoping to pick the brains of those with experience in this. My del ma is: 1) I would rather not carry a 15/17 inch laptop with me. 2) I find smart phone screens too small to use usefully. 3) Call me old fashioned, but although I admire the likes of the Ipod/Ipad etc, I resent purchasing a product that traps you into one supplier only. I like the freedom of my own choice. 4) Those of you who no doubt have similar preferences, I hope may be able to guide me in the right direction ie. Notebook, Tablet or other method. Basically, I am after long battery life, (5-6 hrs), portability, able to use FTM on the product, readability. Therefore, ideas and thoughts would be appreciated . Enjoy Life. Never promise, but will always try. Regards, Bob Sangster

Let us know if you get any recommendations off list. Thanks, Jerry On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Bob Sangster wrote: > > Hello all, > > Firstly, I live in England, so without being rude, some ideas may not be available in the UK. I am after a portable method of carrying my FTM file around the various 'study centres' during my research travels, and am hoping to pick the brains of those with experience in this. My del ma is: > > 1) I would rather not carry a 15/17 inch laptop with me. > 2) I find smart phone screens too small to use usefully. > 3) Call me old fashioned, but although I admire the likes of the Ipod/Ipad etc, I resent purchasing a product that traps you into one supplier only. I like the freedom of my own choice. > 4) Those of you who no doubt have similar preferences, I hope may be able to guide me in the right direction ie. Notebook, Tablet or other method. > > Basically, I am after long battery life, (5-6 hrs), portability, able to use FTM on the product, readability. Therefore, ideas and thoughts would be appreciated . > > > > Enjoy Life. > Never promise, but will always try. > Regards, > Bob Sangster > > > > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Bob: I am with Linda. I have probably the same HP netbook (HP Mini 1103). This summer (before FTM 2012) I took it all over France at the various archives and was VERY satisfied. I have 15 thousand people but no media attached. With a 250MB hard disk I have all my sources as either JPG or PDF and plenty of room to have full version of MS Office 10, SKYPE and other simple graphic editing. It is slow booting up with only 1G of memory but will last at least 6 hours if I do not turn on the WIFI (which is seldom available at the archives). The ability to read my camera SD card and download pictures of documents was a tremendous plus. I have relegated my 5 year old laptop to my desk and I no longer carry my recharge cord (brick) to the archives. I do run Windows 7 Starter Service pack 1 Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco pierre1928@gmail.com

I just spent 3 days at the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, IN with my new Dell netbook! It worked great. My big laptop is officially grounded! Judy in Ocala On Oct 15, 2011, at 7:02 PM, "Pierre M Hahn" <pierre28@pacbell.net> wrote: > Dear Bob: > I am with Linda. I have probably the same HP netbook (HP Mini 1103). > This summer (before FTM 2012) I took it all over France at the various > archives and was VERY satisfied. I have 15 thousand people but no media > attached. With a 250MB hard disk I have all my sources as either JPG or PDF > and plenty of room to have full version of MS Office 10, SKYPE and other > simple graphic editing. It is slow booting up with only 1G of memory but > will last at least 6 hours if I do not turn on the WIFI (which is seldom > available at the archives). The ability to read my camera SD card and > download pictures of documents was a tremendous plus. > I have relegated my 5 year old laptop to my desk and I no longer carry my > recharge cord (brick) to the archives. > I do run Windows 7 Starter Service pack 1 > > Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco > pierre1928@gmail.com > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message