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Also, I'd like to keep using Office 2003
Make sure you have disks and CD Key. I did a netbook thing but it was out of desperation. This meets by immediate needs, but I know damn well it is likely to die in two years. If I had money I would have gotten either a decent notebook that would take 8 Gig of Ram, a decent side solid state disk and a version of windows 7 that could accss that much RAM. Decent speed now, decent speed even after 7 gets patched over the years and starts eating more memory. Alternatively I might consider a MacBook air, but the office 2003 thing might be a bit expensive - might have to go to one of the pricey places that specializes in getting people legal versions of older office versions.
Sorry for disappearing. My laptop fan is not working and I'm using the 15 minutes or so of computer time to back up everything in stages.
Make sure you have disks and CD Key.
I only want to keep Office 2003 because I own it already and see no reason to upgrade when eveything I've heard about the newer versions is bad.
I hadn't really considered switching to a Mac. I would love something small, but I don't really know what netbooks can handle and what they can't. And I think that ultimately I do still want a DVD/CD drive.
Is there any reason I shouldn't get this at Best Buy?
I quite like the newer versions, but I'm not sure what feature changes there are. The UI is vastly different which I think the source of the unpopularity. I particularly like the navigation pane of Office 2010.
You can compromise between netbook size and notebook speed with something like this:
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Not as small as a netbook, not as powerful as a larger notebook, but should be fine for most tasks and still not real expensive.
Not as small as a netbook, not as powerful as a larger notebook, but should be fine for most tasks and still not real expensive.
Oooh, I really like that one! And I could get a DVD/CD thing as an attachment (or whatever it's called) to burn and rip CDs, right?
And I could get it in red.
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Yeah you can get an external drive like this one:
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I adore my 11" Macbook Air and you can get an external DVD drive for it as well.
I'm not trying to push a particular laptop or company, but I think it's worth going a step up from a netbook if it's affordable.
I'm running Office 2003 on Windows 7, if that's a concern. My only recurring problem with it is that Word keeps not remembering my settings. (Has anyone figured out a fix for this?)
Does anyone know of a site like photobucket that allows image hotlinking but with a less prudish TOS? They just yanked a really tame picture of mine, and I'm a little disgruntled.
I'd use flickr, except they have rules that if you hotlink you need to link back to them, and I don't want to.
ita, I could give you ftp access to a folder on one of my sites, if that would work for you.
