<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108277809937554792.post2589973123203102386..comments</id><updated>2007-08-20T16:02:37.410-05:00</updated><category term='yapcna2008'/><category term='stlouis.pm'/><category term='fedora'/><category term='yapcna'/><category term='olf2010'/><category term='git'/><category term='personal'/><category term='microgrant'/><category term='Computer Room'/><category term='yapc'/><category term='perl'/><title type='text'>Comments on SteveCo: On buying laptops</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/feeds/2589973123203102386/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/2589973123203102386/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2007/08/on-buying-laptops.html'/><author><name>Steven Pritchard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00716303018104544735</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108277809937554792.post-2690164337383681748</id><published>2007-08-20T16:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-20T16:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Toshiba seems to use standard power connectors on ...</title><content type='html'>Toshiba seems to use standard power connectors on around half of their laptops.  The rest use a weird square-ish plug.  Replacement power adapters for those are expensive.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My main gripe with Toshiba is that the last time I worked on a new one, it came pre-loaded with some spyware.  Luckily it was all easy to remove.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/2589973123203102386/comments/default/2690164337383681748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/2589973123203102386/comments/default/2690164337383681748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2007/08/on-buying-laptops.html?showComment=1187643720000#c2690164337383681748' title=''/><author><name>Steven Pritchard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00716303018104544735</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2007/08/on-buying-laptops.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108277809937554792.post-2589973123203102386' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/posts/default/2589973123203102386' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1531220451'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108277809937554792.post-3541917202566541959</id><published>2007-08-20T15:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-20T15:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for writing this, I'm thinking of getting a...</title><content type='html'>Thanks for writing this, I'm thinking of getting a laptop - Thinkpads and Acers would be my first choices but it's more from a feauture point of view.&lt;BR/&gt;What did surprise me from your information was that the Toshiba ones are a bit bad with regards to the power systems. The ones I've had experience with (yeah, that's three) seem standard but thanks for the head's up!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/2589973123203102386/comments/default/3541917202566541959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/2589973123203102386/comments/default/3541917202566541959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2007/08/on-buying-laptops.html?showComment=1187642280000#c3541917202566541959' title=''/><author><name>seawolf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09349975211855521832</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/774/weemee962jf.png'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2007/08/on-buying-laptops.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108277809937554792.post-2589973123203102386' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8108277809937554792/posts/default/2589973123203102386' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-2031685857'/></entry></feed>
