Lila I don't what you meam by "rugged". If you intend to throw it around on the floor or against a Brick Wall, I don't think you will find one. This the 3rd laptop I've had that is a Toshiba and I find it very rugged for what I do. I carry it around with me to the library and when I was working I carried it around on my job which took me to many places across Canada and the US. I can't remember ever having a problem. >From past experience I know that PAF has worked on all of them. Now I have a new Toshiba that uses Vista Windows, and PAF works fine on that; I can't say the same thing for some other Genealogy problems, since Vista won't let you find your Help file for some of the other programs. Also Vista won't faciliate creating a large wall chart, that can be taken to and printed by a Commercial Graphics Printer. Best of luck. Ross GH Cotton, Burlington, ON, CAN 905)639-2929 Genealogy of the Cotton surname is my Enigma I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name, COTTON, #1437 Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide see http://home.comcast.net/~cottondna/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop > Listers, > > I have searched the PAF archives and evidently didn't come up with a > search term that worked. Someone wrote within the last couple of months > and related that laptops were used in his business and they had to be > rugged (probably not the correct word). He mentioned a brand that fit the > bill, but the one I remembered doesn't come up in the archives, so I guess > I remembered wrong. > > Can anyone remember this posting and help me find it? > > Thanks > > Lila > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
This will be for a college student who will take it to classes and won't be running PAF, at least now. Toshiba is the brand I remember but I can't find the message in the PAF archives. One person I know was required to place her laptop in her checked luggage for an international flight, and I'd like to have a laptop that could withstand the kind of treatment that checked baggage endures. Lila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross G.H. Cotton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 17 November, 2007 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop > Lila > I don't what you meam by "rugged". If you intend to throw it around on > the > floor or against a Brick Wall, I don't think you will find one. > > This the 3rd laptop I've had that is a Toshiba and I find it very rugged > for > what I do. I carry it around with me to the library and when I was > working > I carried it around on my job which took me to many places across Canada > and > the US. I can't remember ever having a problem. > >>From past experience I know that PAF has worked on all of them. Now I >>have > a new Toshiba that uses Vista Windows, and PAF works fine on that; I > can't > say the same thing for some other Genealogy problems, since Vista won't > let > you find your Help file for some of the other programs. Also Vista won't > faciliate creating a large wall chart, that can be taken to and printed by > a > Commercial Graphics Printer. > > Best of luck. > > Ross GH Cotton, Burlington, ON, CAN 905)639-2929 > Genealogy of the Cotton surname is my Enigma > I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above > > GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name, COTTON, #1437 > Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide > see http://home.comcast.net/~cottondna/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-L[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:51 AM > Subject: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop > > >> Listers, >> >> I have searched the PAF archives and evidently didn't come up with a >> search term that worked. Someone wrote within the last couple of months >> and related that laptops were used in his business and they had to be >> rugged (probably not the correct word). He mentioned a brand that fit the >> bill, but the one I remembered doesn't come up in the archives, so I >> guess >> I remembered wrong. >> >> Can anyone remember this posting and help me find it? >> >> Thanks >> >> Lila >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Having gone through 4 laptops in the last 20 years.. my best purchase was just to find a cheap (<$400) laptop through Ebay. My current one, a Compaq is not made anymore, but its already "broken in" and if I were you I would find out what programs your daughter wants.. Just for office (like Open Office) or for games? One laptop (550mhz) has survived incredibly well. My first one didn't survive but three months.. but falling off the back of a motorcycle onto an L.A. freeway can do that. If it just lasts a few years, and does office and the internet.. you don't need a powerhouse. But google "review" and any model you look at. Alan Now living more dangerously (traded my motorcycle for a wife) On Nov 17, 2007 8:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This will be for a college student who will take it to classes and won't > be > running PAF, at least now. Toshiba is the brand I remember but I can't > find > the message in the PAF archives. > > One person I know was required to place her laptop in her checked luggage > for an international flight, and I'd like to have a laptop that could > withstand the kind of treatment that checked baggage endures. > > Lila > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ross G.H. Cotton" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: 17 November, 2007 4:06 PM > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop > > > > Lila > > I don't what you meam by "rugged". If you intend to throw it around on > > the > > floor or against a Brick Wall, I don't think you will find one. > > > > This the 3rd laptop I've had that is a Toshiba and I find it very rugged > > for > > what I do. I carry it around with me to the library and when I was > > working > > I carried it around on my job which took me to many places across Canada > > and > > the US. I can't remember ever having a problem. > > > >>From past experience I know that PAF has worked on all of them. Now I > >>have > > a new Toshiba that uses Vista Windows, and PAF works fine on that; I > > can't > > say the same thing for some other Genealogy problems, since Vista won't > > let > > you find your Help file for some of the other programs. Also Vista > won't > > faciliate creating a large wall chart, that can be taken to and printed > by > > a > > Commercial Graphics Printer. > > > > Best of luck. > > > > Ross GH Cotton, Burlington, ON, CAN 905)639-2929 > > Genealogy of the Cotton surname is my Enigma > > I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above > > > > GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name, COTTON, #1437 > > Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide > > see http://home.comcast.net/~cottondna/<http://home.comcast.net/%7Ecottondna/> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:51 AM > > Subject: [PAF-5] A rugged laptop > > > > > >> Listers, > >> > >> I have searched the PAF archives and evidently didn't come up with a > >> search term that worked. Someone wrote within the last couple of months > >> and related that laptops were used in his business and they had to be > >> rugged (probably not the correct word). He mentioned a brand that fit > the > >> bill, but the one I remembered doesn't come up in the archives, so I > >> guess > >> I remembered wrong. > >> > >> Can anyone remember this posting and help me find it? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Lila > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >