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Cutter,
I looked at Nexlinks site, did you get the magnesium case, sounded interesting.
Dennis
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Faux magnesium 
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Working for IBM I must say that IBM Thinkpads are highly regarded. I would tell you if it was not true. Unfortunately as Dennis tells you they are made now by Lenovo (China) under the IBM brand name. They were always made my Lenovo but engineered by IBM. When we sold Lenovo the Thinkpad line our engineers went with them.
I have had IBM Thinkpads for the past 12 years and never had a failure until recently. I do lots of heavy data work which really gives the hard drive a work out and finally I was able to cause one to fail after a few years. Fortunately I had data backup.
Docking stations are great but not necessary, Windows XP Home Edition, 80 GIG hard drive (as Ken recommends), processor is not as important for the internet - Pentium is nice, try to get a screen greater than 14 inches if possible, most should be wireless capable but make sure - you will want it. At least 500M memory, preferably 1 gig. R Series sould be fine probably for your purposes, we use T Series at work.
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I really appreciate everyones advice, so hopefully next week someday the Mrs. and I armed with your advice will take the Sunday paper along and go laptop shopping. I came home from sugery today, Doc. says no lifting heavier than a jug of milk for a couple weeks so that might make for a daytrip thing, or at least dinner out if we don't agree on what to buy. Thanks again. Frank.
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Hardwood:
Hope you have a fast recovery and didn't have anything serious!
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I have had an opportunity to use the keyboard on this new laptop and it is by far the most user friendly and comfortable I have had to date. I still prefer using the wireless board but in a pinch this thing is not bad!
Happy shopping and speedy recovery Hardwood!
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Guys; Thanks for the well wishes. I had the normal prostate roto router job on Wednesday morning and came home yesterday afternoon. I said a few prayers of thank you this morning that no cancer was involved. A couple of my coffee shop cronies had stoped by a couple days before telling their gorry war stories about their prostate sugery, as usual their stories were greatly exaggerated. Please never fear it when it comes your time, there was very little pain involved. Doc. said they no longer "auger" it out, but use a laser to vaporize the problem tissue, bet that smells good. Time for a bit of rest now, hospital beds don't seem to have ever been designed for maximum comfort. Keep warm. Frank.
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Frank, glad to hear things are going good. Get rest and take care!
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New development, No. 3 son called last evening, he has been doing some research to help the old man out. He found that a wireless provider has an antenna on top of a grain elevator leg, I think it is in the range of 150 to 175 ft. tall about 6 miles from me as the crow flies. He has wireless on his laptops at work and tells me it has no equal. He also travels a lot for the company and said he has no problem finding wireless service while on the road. He's going to call the provider on the didtance issue, I'm not real sure if I have line of sight to the antenna or not but it would have to be close. Anyone have any experience with diatance to the antenna? Thanks. Frank.
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Hardwood, if you have a computer that is wireless capable, all you have to do is go to your network connections, click on the wireless connection, search for wireless providers from your house. If you don't find one you are too far.
Wireless service has gotten very good, and it is terrific for people who travel or visit customer sites where they are blocked from getting on the customers network. The speeds are usually slower than the fastest rates you can get from a cable or DSL provider. This only becomes meaningful with larger downloads for example, in my case I need to be able to do do massive downloads (10GB) of entire software products.
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