Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 11/12/2012 06:18 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:43:25PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > One thing to think about is placement of the ctrl key.  It gets used a
> > lot, especially when editing.  So it's placement is of great
> > importance ergonomically.
> Only if you use emacs, if you use vim, for example, it hardly gets used
> at all.
I have an older Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505. and I like it a lot. It has a 
very good keyboard
for a laptop, probably the best I've run into.  All the keys are in 
normal places, except
because it has no separate number pad or the 6 keys a desktop k/b has to 
the right of
the Backspace and \ keys, the delete key is after the F12 key.
So if they still make as nice a machine as this one, then I recommend 
Dell.  (I'm running
PCLinuxOS on it, and it works fine. I dual boot with XP, but hardly ever 
use the m/s os.)

--doug