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Boy, you know how to get a knee-jerk response from me.
Dell makes good laptops and consumer laptops. Get the good ones. Get the
business class ones. Get the brightest screen you can afford. Repeat - GET
THE BRIGHT SCREEN!. That costs more money... pay it.
Memory, power, etc don't matter for purposes of navigation software. Any
modern laptop has ample capacity. But memory, power etc does matter very
much when calculating the useful life expectancy of a laptop (time to
obsolescence). ALWAYS buy at the very top of the line for a laptop. PIII
x 128 MB RAM is pretty normal. A DVD on a boat is very nice. 10 GB drive
for sure.
You can tell what you are getting from Dell and other main-stream laptop
manufacturers by the price. The price should be from $2.500.00 range at the
low to $5,000.00 at the high. Anything cheaper and your into consumer class
laptops which I don't even want to talk about. They're not worth buying.
There is extensive discussion on this subject in the archives.
Joe Engel
President
Marine Computer Services, Inc.
216 N. Tillamook St.
Portland, OR 97227
PHN: 503-281-3291
FAX: 503-288-3087
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:56 PM
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