Why not get him a palm then? Or a Blackberry? A laptop seems like overkill.
Why not get him a palm then? Or a Blackberry? A laptop seems like overkill.
He wants a keyboard that he can type on. He also likes to attach a mouse, and I can’t blame him, I use a mouse for my laptop too!
@Cmdr:
Why not get him a palm then? Or a Blackberry? A laptop seems like overkill.
He wants a keyboard that he can type on. He also likes to attach a mouse, and I can’t blame him, I use a mouse for my laptop too!
Not a problem, you can get those as well. A wireless mouse would be better, IMO.
Yea, but I don’t think palms are that advanced. I have one, it does more crashing then talking to my Mac. Works okay with my PC, but then again, my PC runs Windows 98b everything works with that!
Besides, I don’t think he wants to be limited to a 2 inch display with itty bitty keys or multiple things to assemble, you know? Best just to get him a real laptop, just a cheap one. By the time I get a PDA ($250) + Keyboard, + Memory + Mouse I think it’ll be more then just a laptop.
Gunna take the suggestion of looking at Midnight on gluttony day. Hopefully find something there.
@Cmdr:
Where to buy cheap laptops?
somwhere in the heart of a communist regime in the jungles of asia. (cracks whip, make me my shoes, make me my plastics and my computers. but comrade why do you opress us so? Angrily says am I not the one who gives you a shinny quarter every week. now be grateful. cracks whip agian)
Wow, you pay too much, Comrad! A whole quarter is worth at LEAST the labor of 3 moons and a fortnight!
1 quarter for the whole factory, comrade!
Here you go:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/sys/477770536.html
even cheaper yet!
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9749768-1.html
$150! i knew i heard about them before. they are made with the intention of every schoolchild in the world being able to afford one. so that means in the future they’ll even get cheaper.
Wow, almost perfect!
Wonder if I can upgrade it to 512 ram? Just worried he won’t have enough to run MS Office 2007 Ultimate Edition….it chews up memory bad…think Win 95 with Active Desktop installed, for you old timers out there…Sorry I upgraded, but I had too. Couldn’t read my school files anymore on XP hehe.
Anyway, I’ll have to look into giving them a call tomorrow.
even cheaper yet!
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9749768-1.html
$150! i knew i heard about them before. they are made with the intention of every schoolchild in the world being able to afford one. so that means in the future they’ll even get cheaper.
I was excited about that link too until I read the comments and found this:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772144-1.html
Also, the laptop runs linux, which I have just switched to (again) at home, but this time for good. Ubuntu 7.10 - everything worked like a charm pretty much off the bat, and the Compiz Fusion window manager makes Vista look like Windows 3.1.
Just can’t get triplea to work yet :( …
@Ender:
even cheaper yet!
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9749768-1.html
$150! i knew i heard about them before. they are made with the intention of every schoolchild in the world being able to afford one. so that means in the future they’ll even get cheaper.
I was excited about that link too until I read the comments and found this:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772144-1.htmlAlso, the laptop runs linux, which I have just switched to (again) at home, but this time for good. Ubuntu 7.10 - everything worked like a charm pretty much off the bat, and the Compiz Fusion window manager makes Vista look like Windows 3.1.
Just can’t get triplea to work yet :( …
Is Linux Navy proof? In other words, would your average ONI (officer of naval intelligence) be able to figure it out within, say, an hour like windows?
Sorry Jen…
They have not made a micro-chip item that was NAVAL Officer proof since Texas Instruments developed the Little Professor back in the 1970’s :evil:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/TI/LittleProfessor.htm
@ncscswitch:
Sorry Jen…
They have not made a micro-chip item that was NAVAL Officer proof since Texas Instruments developed the Little Professor back in the 1970’s :evil:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/TI/LittleProfessor.htm
I think the problem is they keep making better naval officer proof equipment, the navy just makes a better naval officer that can break it after they succeed. hehe.
You know, VTech has a child laptop, wonder if I could break into it, put in a wireless card, upgrade the hard drive and load a real operating system on it (instead of the 16 bit games preloaded) and give that too him?
That might be a good idea…
With the built in software, he should be able to use it to train Marines
:mrgreen:
@Cmdr:
@Ender:
even cheaper yet!
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9749768-1.html
$150! i knew i heard about them before. they are made with the intention of every schoolchild in the world being able to afford one. so that means in the future they’ll even get cheaper.
I was excited about that link too until I read the comments and found this:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772144-1.htmlAlso, the laptop runs linux, which I have just switched to (again) at home, but this time for good. Ubuntu 7.10 - everything worked like a charm pretty much off the bat, and the Compiz Fusion window manager makes Vista look like Windows 3.1.
Just can’t get triplea to work yet :( …
Is Linux Navy proof? In other words, would your average ONI (officer of naval intelligence) be able to figure it out within, say, an hour like windows?
Ubuntu 7.10 is I think easier than Windows in a lot of ways. Haven’t really hit any snags. It comes with pretty much any desktop software the average user would want pre-installed (Office, E-mail, Browser, Media player) and if you want to add anything, you just click on the main menu - Add/Remove - choose your category of software, and install it!
Except TripleA, which is weird because I had that working on an older version of Ubuntu. I may have installed the wrong version of Java? Who knows.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/index.html
this one’s only$200!
I ended up getting a $600 model from CompUSA tax free, shipping free, 3 yr warranty free. (Course, CompUSA is more expensive then Circuit City, Best Buy, Apt, etc.)
By the way I looked at that Vtech Kids Laptop, It’s basicly an over sized Calculator. I was disapointed, I had though about geting them fo rmy kids, bu tI’d rather just get a real laptop.
By the way I looked at that Vtech Kids Laptop, It’s basicly an over sized Calculator. I was disapointed, I had though about geting them fo rmy kids, bu tI’d rather just get a real laptop.
My one year old loves it. Makes all kinds of noises. Don’t think he knows it has a monitor yet. :P
Kids need to be using books and not computers dammit! :evil: (Quoted from my dad)
@M36:
Kids need to be using books and not computers dammit! :evil: (Quoted from my dad)
Yea, but this one teaches them how to read books.
