Sale - at a higher price :)

Have you ever seen a sale at higher than normal price !!! Here we go ..http://www.pelltechnology.com/IBM-Parts/Notebooks-and-Handhelds/IBM-ThinkPad-T-Series/IBM-ThinkPad-T61/IBM-ThinkPad-T61-8891/Motherboards-&-LCD-Screens

finally a PC after all

So finally decided on PC

Delivery date - 9/4/09

-- Dell Studio 15 1555 Notebook
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-- Processors --
-- Intel® Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
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-- Memory --
-- 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz
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-- Keyboard --
-- Back-lit Keyboard
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-- LCD Panel --
-- 15.6” Full High Definition (1080p) High Brightness LED Display with TrueLife™ and Camera/Facial Reco
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-- Video Card --
-- 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
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-- Hard Drive --
-- Size: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
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-- System Color --
-- Black Chainlink
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-- Operating System --
-- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit
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-- Combo or DVD+RW Drive --
-- 8X Slot Load Super Multi (DL DVD+/-R Drive + RAM support)
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-- Sound --
-- High Definition Audio 2.0
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-- Wireless Networking Cards --
-- Intel 5300 Ultimate-N Half Mini Card (3x3) with MyWiFi
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-- Battery --
-- 56 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
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-- Bluetooth Option --
-- Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Internal (2.1)
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-- Processor Branding --
-- Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor
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Laptop - which one .... huh - Mac or PC - PC or PC

Laptop choosing becomes more complicated with the more knowledge and research a person does.

For me its a tough choice, i am sure about what i want but i keep getting confused with choices ... and now its Mac vs PC that has added to the confusion.

My wishlist
Primary - 13.3 , 14.1 or 15.4/6 only Better screen since that what we use more - so i want a WSXGA+ kind of thing.
Secondary - Core 2 Duo - P models ones preferably, T would be also fine.
HD - >= 160GB
Ram - >=2GB
Certainly a Video connector - HDMI or DisplayPort should do
Quick delivery - Cant wait more than 4 weeks or so .. as some lenovo y450 and y550 show, its too much.
Of course a DVD writer and SD card reader
Wireless N for sure


Dont care about firewire
Hate HP.
Prefer value for money over features


Ok so i have my list
1. Thinkpad T500, No T400 since no video connector there.
2. Lenovo Y450
3. Macbook Pro 13.3 - 2.26Ghz
4. Dell Studio 15
5. Toshiba M500

So now i am again confused .. i think i have done enough research and i should just randomly choose one, thats better than educated research, given the market, with so many confusing options, ignorance is a bliss, especially in laptop hunting.

Is your touchpad jumpy and erratic

well think about what changes did you do to software, if you didnt do any change, and no new softwares were installed, you can most certainly put your head on hardware. I have a lenovo y410 and my touchpad was jumpy and it used to get stuck every 5 seconds. Finally i realized it was due to the power supply i purchased newly from ebay. The supply was good, it was shorter than the OEM though, but the difference is the fact that it had only 2 pins. Seems static is building up and disturbing the electro-static touchpad that my lenovo has (most laptops have that). So the solution was to get the three pin AC power supply. See how power supply can affect the functioning of a laptop !!! interesting isnt it. Ebay has a small section for feedback, i wish i could have given more feedback there , not necessarily that the product is bad, but it is not suitable for me for sure.

Ant and Grasshopper

Got a forward - nice one.

Ant and the grasshopper (Reality of INDIA under any rule)

An Old Story:

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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:

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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .

Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for ' Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later.....

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ,

...AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,

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India is still a developing country !!!