10 Mar
2007
10 Mar
'07
3:04 p.m.
On Sat Mar 10, 2007 at 01:47:13PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:56:30PM -0500, carmen
wrote:
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i have the same issue with my MSI 'whitebook' - its even more obscure than ASUS as
far as DIY notebooks go - nobody has 4-cell white batteries. so im stuck with the giant
battery that sticks out the back, or a zebra-looking thing.
luckily the AC adaptor is incredibly common and i just picked one up from LiteOn when the
included one shorted out internally (it had an inner conductor surrounded by an outer
conductor and a tiny insulator which cracked under stress causing the cable to melt..
im still glad i went with the whitebook though. it was about half the price of a macbook
pro with the same specs, and still a nice metal case... plus it has a row of
pageup/down/home/end keys on the right edge i cant imagine going without for any extended
irssi/firefox/manpage paging..
On Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 07:43:00PM -1000, david
wrote:
I bought an ASUS "whitebook" last year. It felt good not to pay for an
OS I wasn't going to use. But, now I wonder if it was such a good idea.
I can't seem to find an extra battery to buy anywhere. Is this a general ljc(a)internet.com.uy wrote:
everything is
made by Compal, Quanta, and ASUS. can you really
discriminate by western "brand" ? laptop issue? or just something that happens when what
one has was only
purchased by a relatively small segment of the market?
(this was my first laptop purchase, so I guess I'm a bit of a mobility
newbie.)
-Eric Rz.