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Re: [LUG] OT- Cheap Laptop

 

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:47:11 -0000, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My son bought a netbook recently, eeePC. Then he had to buy a separate
DVD drive to go with it. That certainly bumped up the price.
There is that. Printers and scanners are extra too and I use them all just  
as often.  Personally I only use dvd drives to install a new OS. I just  
took out the harddrive, plugged it into a desktop and installed that way.  
Admittedly I only had to do that because my USB flash memory was broken,  
otherwise I'd have used unetbootin to make a liveusb thingy. All in all,  
it's not a handicap for me. If you watch alot of DVDs or something  
obviously that changes things.
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