Laptop choices

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Parv wrote:
> in message <20051123185909.GA17696 at thought.org>, wrote Gary Kline
> thusly...
> >
> > I'm looking for a newer laptop (a newer, faster ThinkPad,
> > probably).  There are ' some seriously cheap laptops "on-sale",
> > but they would probably be a bad choice because they have those
> > touch/scratch mouse-pad things that I can't use.  So:: does
> > anybody know of a ThinkPad clone?  Or, can the touch pads be
> > disabled in the bios?
> 
> Yes, yes the touch pad can be disabled in BIOS, at least on IBM
> ThinkPad T41 (my sister dislikes touchpad) & T42 (i noticed the
> option in BIOS to disable touchpad) .
> 
> I do not know of a ThinkPad clone; if/when you do, i would like to
> hear about them too.
> 

	I destest those scracth 'n' sniff pad; hard to move cursor 
	by rubbing; harder by scrtching.  Gotta be a better way.
	Till then, the tiny mouse-stick works.  (I do plug in a real
	mouse if I'm "mousing" seriously.  Google has a few hit on
	"thinkpad clone" but not in English.

	(*mumble*)

	gary

	PS to everyone:: Happy Thanksgiving; including folk not 
	in the States!   


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