On 4/30/2017 5:17 AM, Diesel wrote:
Ed Pawlowski Sun,
30 Apr 2017 00:39:38 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 4/29/2017 2:44 PM, Naturous wrote:
I broke My mobo some time back and was given a Dell with W8 and
all the goodies. I managed to get W10 installed, and after
getting used to all the new bells and whistles, it gets the job
done. Now I want a fresh computer that is moe compact and it
looks like I have several choices in new gear. A laptop, tablet,
ETC so what would twist your short and curlies...a laptop or
tablet? I have a laptop that came with My data loging software
and hardware, and am not willing to use it for any other purpose.

What raises an eyebrow for you???

Depends on your use. Wife and I have two desktops, 3 laptops, 1
tablet.

The tablet is good for reading books and the occasional email.
IMO, it is not a computer worth having for anything else.

The small laptops get a lot of use. I have an Acer 11" and use it
80% of the time. If travels easily (right now I'm in a motel).
The keyboard is just large enough to type on, I have a mouse for
it. Most of all, it sits on my belly when I sit in the recliner
and play on newsgroups. It has been in at least 5 countries and
is usable in airports.

Is it an actual laptop or a netbook? The difference primarily being,
lack of an optical drive and limited accessory ports. It may for
example, only have one or two usb ports available for your use. It
may also be lacking a place to plugin a cat5/6 cable as well. They
also tend to use slow rpm wise hard drives due to power concerns.



It has 3 USB, 1 HDMI and a cable plug in, speaker port. Does not have
an optical drive.

I don't do photo editing or drawing on it as I have the big iron when
needed. I do email, read the occasional pdf file, newsgroups. The
video is cast to a big screen TV It works for me.