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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? 
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> From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>
> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 09:33:30 -0400
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> I don't know about that. I looked at the Toshibas yesterday at Bestbuy.
> They're made of the same grade plastic that the Sony is made of. Perhaps
> things have changed a bit in the last 3 years.

Try the Toshiba keyboard before going this way. I found it to be the
worst I had ever used. While I love the IBM keyboard, the Dell is not
bad. No experience with Sony.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634