[DDN] $165 laptop

[Pamela McLean]

Dear Claude

I just read your email  - belatedly - while trawling through messages 
that came while I was away. I thought it was interesting both to me and 
and also to members of learningfromeachother. We have recently been 
discussing issues around the $100 laptop there. I wondered about 
forwarding your email to them - and thought that as it was to a list and 
not private it would be okay to do so. Of course as soon as I had 
pressed the "send" button doubts crept in - so I'm  writing 
retrospectively to let you know, ask your permission (and to apologise 
if I have done the wrong thing), and to ask the general question "What 
is the netiquette of copying between lists?"

Pam


Claude Almansi wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I got a new laptop at CHF 200.- ( $165)  yesterday - well, "new" in
> the sense of "another". Second-hand actually, a Digital HiNote ultra
> 2000 (1). Sure, the model has been around for almost a decade, I won't
> go cavorting around Second Life or super-special-beta-testing any
> secret super-special-new-fangled internet TV software with it - But
> what the heck? the owner used it very little,it's light,  it's fast,
> it doesn't overheat, and the battery has good staying power.
>
> I've chucked most programs and temporarily installed firefox, which
> gives me access to google docs for text editing and spreadsheets (2).
> And I have asked on the forum of the local Linux Users' Group if
> someone would show me how to replace the dubious Windows Me that came
> on it with some version of Linux, and at what price. Then *maybe* I'll
> add some other programs than firefox to it.
>
> This is not a dig at the $100 laptop. There arent enough folks who
> underuse their laptops and then sell them off to get a new model, to
> cover the needs, probably. But why not have both possibilities?
>
> Best
>
> Claude
>
>