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[heidi]

So when your laptop can't find the OS, that's a bad thing, no?

Better today now I'm home, than yesterday when I was traveling.

Has anyone tried the new Asus Eee or the fujitsu Lifebook? If Apple isn't going to give the world a tiny laptop soon I need something else for work asap....

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[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Weird, one of my coworkers has a tiny Apple laptop. I'll have to ask him how he got it, as I'm not seeing anything that size on Apple.com.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that would be cool.

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Bah. According to Coworker, 12" Mac laptops were sold two years ago, but they aren't being sold any more.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. I know how to get a used one - or I could wait until January when they may be releasing an11 inch but I think I'm just going to go for the ASUS for now...

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anything about that Asus, but have to say that my Asus U5A (which I bought some 15 months ago for the small footprint, which I still love love love - the footprint, that is) has given me more trouble than the average bear seems to.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

What sort of problems? Do you have a windows or a linux OS on it?

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Windows XP Pro. Office 2003.

Various things stop working, and while possibly some of them are software faults, they may also be memory faults (512 MB RAM, and it's not as if upgrading a notebook's memory is either easy or legal, even when possible). Or it may be something proprietary and mysterious, or Windows-specific, or who knows?

• After a few hours on the net lately, it forgets how to copy and (special) paste - and I need special because Word falls over if I use ordinary for anything that's been formatted in html - practically everything. (That is one of Word's tricks done just for me.) Remedy: switch notebook off and on.
• Restart very rarely works.
• The last month or so I've had to switch it off every night because after a few hours of being unused it forgets how to make wireless contact with the net.
• For the last 8 months or so, it will not turn on the Office shortcut bar as part of startup, I have to do that separately. I can't see any way to force that back into startup.

All small things, and possibly remediable, but they're cumulative, and there's a new problem every so often. Oh, and Asus kindly set the internet home page to their contact page, and it can't be reset through XP's internet options. That's fixable in the registry, apparently, but antisocial conduct from Asus. I hesitate to interfere with the registry, so I just put up with it.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Oh, meep, it sounds like the right thing to do is spring for it at bestbuy and if it doesn't work how I hope, return it after a week or so trial....
Sigh, why can't there be something exactly how I want it that works?

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

You're lucky to have the buy and return option! On the other hand, I wouldn't want your tornadoes.