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you're not silly enough to buy Compaqs are you? I spend a lot of time
> comparing specs for purchasing purposes, never yet seen a notebook that
> doesn't have a serial port in the specs. Now if you're buying sub-notes
> (really rally small notebooks) then they don't have serial ports
I have 2 medium high end compaq laptops and wouldn't get compaq again.
I only paid about $1200 for them when they were selling for over $2K.
They have been fairly good, but the DVD players never operaed smoothly and
the PC came loaded with compaqs system which is over burdened from the
start. (this is the main problem with compaqs.)
They are fine once you disable 4/5ths of the system!
Another note for those buying laptops, the speed of the processor is rather
inconsequential, all laptops are limited by their tiny low powered hard
drives.
This being the case, if I were going to get another laptop, I would buy a
good used one with at least a 350mhz. processor (about $500) and put a newer
large hard drive in it. This would result in a laptop that would be as good
as any for under $900. I think a better boating solution is to build a
desktop in a water proof case and use a flat screen LCD display with it.
M.Mech (pounding away at a compaq 1687, 380MHZ AMD K26 laptop)
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