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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 6/23/2006, you wrote:
> Do some of the laptops come with a detachable keyboard
> that could be hooked up to a larger monitor?

Most laptops that I know of can have an external keyboard and monitor 
attached.  I have thought that when I stop I will keep a laptop and get the 
external monitor and keyboard and use it as a desktop.



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VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
> I like my desktop because I like being able to rest my arms on the
> table and I like having a very large screen.

This brings up another point....some of the laptops I have seen have
screens that are hard for me to see, almost as if I were looking at it
through sunglasses or something.  I have the same monitor as I had 10
years ago, so I need to learn about laptop display monitors....are they
LED or what?  I, too, would like something large and easy to see, having
just been diagnosed with glaucoma a few months back. (I'm fine for now,
though-just thinking ahead)


> One thing I wish I had was a keyboard with an attached trackball.
> When I am drafting I spend a lot of time moving hands to the mouse
> and then back to keyboard.

I hate that, too.  I suppose I should learn more keyboard shortcuts.  My
hands are rather large, and I worry that this small, trackball/touchpad
thing would be hard to finesse. Is it not?


Bev
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