Re: T40 Battery {was: Opinions on Presario Laptop}

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 2/2/2004 07:31 PM -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:
> Because Princeton has
> wireless in its classrooms, and students are expected to bring their computers
> to class -- an idea I very much like, because otherwise when do you have an
> opportunity to read the Times, W.Post, and Guardian?
So that's what my students are doing while I'm trying to explain dramatic
irony and relative clauses. And I thought they were collecting my pearls.
>  -- I figured, hey, great
> to have a battery that lasts all day. He's the guy who said 9 hours. I asked
> him to call me when the T40 was available -- and two months later, he phoned.
> I couldn't believe it.
Ah, the siren song of the salesman. Was he Greek? Seriously, Robert, it's a
fine machine. Somehow my first one came with a corrupted OS. The
replacement was perfect, however -- 1.6G, 40Gb HD, wireless and CD-RW
standard. I brought the RAM up to a gig, overkill no doubt. Re: battery
life; there is a combo that will give you 9 hours -- their extended
battery, the humpback, plus a beefy drive-bay battery. The T4X series has
only one bay, I think, so that means you give up your optical drive. I'll
get the extended battery and settle, happily, for 5-7 hours. BTW, their
service is, indeed, excellent. How do you backup the distant laptops?
You've written about your Firewire backup HD. Do keep some kind of backup
with each T-Pad? I too bought a child a T-Pad and we're trying to work out
a scheme for him. (My simple solution is a ghost image (Acronis) every
three/six months, plus, of course, daily data backups to ZIPS or CD-RW's.)

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