OT: Poor Web Design

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:11:51PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

30GB was the largest drive available when this machine was
manufactured.  The largest notbook drive available *now* is only 160G,
and I think those may only be being OEMed to Alienware at the moment; I
haven't seen them in the channel.

> 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).

You can, or at least, could.

> 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...?

Hate Compaq if you want; I do.  But this laptop is the *shit*.  For
what I do with it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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