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From: MJMIII on 22 Apr 2010 11:02
Manners? Most of his posts suggest he's posting from the womb.

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"Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote in message
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> 2nd year of college and you've never been taught manners?
> "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>
>>
>> Bruce Chambers wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> Post back when you've finished high school, moved out of your parents
>>> house, and garnered a few years experience working in the real world.
>>
>> I have finished high school and now I am in my second year of
>> Physics BSc degree at London University. I have moved out of my
>> parents house (I am 19 which you may not know) and am currently
>> living in College Halls of Residence in Central London. I have
>> two years experience of Supporting PC and Laptop systems at my
>> university where I also work part-time in Central Computing
>> Services Department. We have about 1,000 systems on out network
>> running all kinds of software applications and operating systems
>> including Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7 {and
>> Linux and Unix systems which I have nothing to do with}. I am
>> fortunate to get both Windows XP and Windows 7 for my exclusive
>> use though I can't install or uninstall anything on Windows 7
>> system (but with XP I can do almost anything I want to do) because
>> it is for a specialist purpose to test Office 2010 beta, and
>> Visual Studio 2010 which I am using to write Instruction material
>> for next academic year. I consider this to be a real world
>> because I see about 1000 systems on a regular basis.
>>
>> Of course I have my own Dell 2600 system and RM desktop system in
>> my room on which I can test almost everything before I post
>> anything here. So my solutions are thtoughly researched and
>> tested and that is exactly what people can see here.
>>
>> hth
>>
>>
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From: Ken Blake, MVP on 22 Apr 2010 12:08
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:58:25 -0400, "Seth"
<seth_lermanNOSPAM(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:03:00 +0000 (UTC), Doum <me(a)domain.net> wrote:
> >
> >> But is a netbook really a laptop? (Personally, I would think so)
> >
> > Sure. People use the word "netbook" simply to describe a small,
> > light-weight laptop. Other than size and weight, there's really no
> > difference between them.
>
>
> Microsoft says there is a difference and has certain criteria to define it.
>
> Netbook is certainly not just a "small, lightweight notebook". There are
> size, processor and power criteria.


Then your views are different from mine.



> A "small, lightweight laptop" is a
> specific calls of laptop, still above what a netbook is. IBM X-Series is
> small and lightweight but doesn't qualify as a netbook.

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From: Marcus on 25 Apr 2010 19:21

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me(a)other.invalid> wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:03:22 +0100, LD55ZRA wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
>>
>> You made me think of a variant of your idea...
>>
>> Remove the laptops's hard drive and replace it by another drive. Install
>> Win XP on that drive. On his son's return, put the original drive back
>> in.
>>
>> Or get two new drives & clone the original to one of them using SW like
>> the
>> free EASEUS Disk Copy. Then do the above using the second new drive. Now
>> you have two copies of the original drive...just in case something goes
>> wrong with the original.
>>
>
>
> Good idea but the only snag I can see is that on some laptops,
> changing a HD is no simple job. You need to perform a complete
> open-heart surgery! I don't know anything about Lenovo laptops
> but Dell and HP are sometimes very difficult to perform simple
> tasks!
>
> hth

I'm with Gordon here. Most laptops these days have a door on the bottom for
the drives and a second door for the memory.

I should probably say most that I have looked at :-)

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

That is the case with my Lenovo Thinkpad. One screw, a cover comes off
to reveal a tab, pull on the tab and the HDD comes out. Very easy.


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