OT: Poor Web Design

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Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
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> P3m 1200/512MB/30GB/10BT/USB1.1x2/SVideo/P/S/VGA/2xPCMCIA/DVD-Combo.

ONLY 30GB?  Yeesh.  I'm not sure I could live with that little except in
small doses of a few hours...which is what this 800MB laptop sees is use
like 5 times a year.

I dunno man, my last production system was 13GB total, and I lived with it
for 8 years.  I just got in 680GB last April and updated my wife's machine
to have the same and it's -still- not enough room sometimes.  More on hers
than mine, as we do most of the video processing on hers.

But if you want to capture with FRAPS or something else, a laptop simply
won't cut it with even an 80GB, which is the most I've seen one listed with
at CompUSA when I go there.  Guess you can get spoiled really quickly when
you're used to having the space.

Why the seeming standardisation of laptops to such small drives?  Why don't
they come standard with 250GB drives?  That's the smallest drive I'd want in
a single-drive system, personally.

The better question is this:  Can you white-box a laptop?  I've never heard
of anyone doing it.  All the laptops I know of are brand-name.  I was
considering Sony at one point--until I found out they have serious video
card shortcomings on some models (a pretty decent one wouldn't even play
Sony's own EverQuest, and although I acknowledge that Verant owned that and
was bought out, the laptop in question was released far after that).

I'll probably still go Sony when I get one.  I hate Compaq, and I haven't
trusted HP since the desktop systems they released in '93-95, much less
their later offerings.  Dell is pricey and the support is supposed to be
the worst in the industry.  Who's left?  Gateway, maybe...?

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