Re: Suggestions for backup laptop (no desktop)?

[Frederick Schmidt <http://www.ibm.net/~fschmidt>]

I still have a desktop (pentium 75 running linux and win3.11) that I haven't
turned on in several months.  That is basically a good sign.

Personally my wife and I find the smaller keyboard and screen a small price to
pay
to get the space savings (yet to be realized; no home yet for a perfectly good
p-75 and 17" monitor) and flexibility to move about the house and to and from
wherever we happen towant to go to work.

Some issues:
1.  I'm only familiar with the NEC Versa laptops of which we've had 3 since
1994 (two still in use).  They are considered to be very expensive but I like
them.  The power is now there (you can get a PIII with 14G hard drive and
all the peripherals, etc) it's just a question of cost.  There are cheaper
laptops
than NEC, but it's still a question of cost, not functionality.
2.  backup is now jaz drive.  With a scsi pcmcia card theoretically any
backup device is viable.
3.  One distinct advantage is a laptop with removable hard drive.  This way,
I can put in a new drive and experiment with different OS's and if it doesn't
work,
at the end of the day I can just switch hard drives.  You can do it with
desktops,
but laptops are much more oriented to swapping devices in and out.
4.  NT sucks on the laptop.  I don't know if it's my inexperience or just
NT in general but win95/98 is much better (e.g. hot-swapping pcmcia cards,
power management, going to sleep, etc)

Hope this helps.

robert wrote:

> Hi.  I saw your Usenet posting posted about a year ago about replacing all
> your desktop machines with laptops.  I was thinking of doing the same thing.
> Did you actually do this?  Is it working out?
>
> --



 > From: Frederick Schmidt <http://www.ibm.net/~fschmidt>
 > Date: Mon  Aug  9,  1:48pm
 >
 . . .
 > Hope this helps.

Yes!  Very much so!  Thanks!