On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:31:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:57:27PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (12/03/07 16:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I'm going to be travelling in semi-wilderness and would like to take a > > > > computer with me. Primarily for note-taking with vim, and when a > > > > > > Will you be travelling by vehicle (or by horse or otherwise mounted) or > > > will you be on foot and having to carry everything yourself? > >
Traveling by car through semi-wilderness but not staying there overnight. That would be camping an a whole other kettle of fish. By semi wilderness I mean Northern Ontario, logging roads, no cell coverage, no or poor pavement, a couple of hours away from the nearest town or village. I just came back from 3 weeks. -40 C plus windchill. I suppose its only semi-wilderness as long as the car is running :-) Since its by car, weight isn't a real issue but size is to some extent. I want a case somewhat smaller than a typical desktop box, and with everyting integrated it doesn't need expansion cards. Something along the lines of a 1U server (pizza box) only closer to a laptop in footprint so it fits in a briefcase-size Pelican. Need it in an airtight case to prevent condensation when I bring it indoors at the end of the day at the motel, hense the Pelican case. After it warms up I could check email. I've had two laptops. Once clone died when my house got hit by lightening while I was using it. I figure induction from the current in the metal roof fried the display. The ThinkPad fried itself when the tent I was in got hit by lightning. If they hadn't been laptops, I may have been able to replace individual components (e.g. screen or power supply) simply. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
