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Alas, bonny, my experience with laptops is confined to the Thinkpads we used at work years ago, and my lone iBook.
There are a lot of new-ish netbooks out there now, which are pretty stripped down, and most importantly INEXPENSIVE. Howver, it sounds like she wants a bigger screen because of vision issues, right?
I think our Garmin is a nuvi and I like it a lot. It does it's job well and we used it to drive from VA to NM.
Is anyone on a no-contract cell phone plan? Feel like offering recommendations?
I used Virgin Wireless for a long time and was very happy with it. They use the Sprint network, if you know what coverage for that is like in your area.
Oh, and I should mention I want the internet on the phone. Nay, need the internet, especially if I'm going to survive in my new job.
I had that too - neat little phone that flipped on the long side and had a full qwerty keyboard. I miss that phone. (It did not survive being dropped in a rushing water during a big storm.)
Conan O'Brien gets Ajay Bhatt to talk trash about Firewire. Okay, not really. But Conan interviews the *real* co-creator of the USB port, not the actor from the Intel ads. Apparently their rock-stars aren't like their rock-stars either.
I thought it was the actual guy until I saw the actor in another commercial for subway or something.
I hear that on some phones, you can get internet and share it to your computer using bluetooth.
OTOH? A number of the restaurants we serve in out-of-the-way areas with no DSL are using Cellular stick modems hooked onto a router that handles USB input.
That, too is cool.
I'm trying to backup my iTunes files so I can move them to my new laptop. It keeps saying that my brand new DVD-R's are locked and unwritable. I have no clue what to do from here. I have about 28GB of data to move.