Salut/Hi Dana H. Myers,

le/on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:40:18 -0800, tu disais/you said:-

>Max Hauser wrote:
>> Remarkable item in today's Palo Alto [California] Daily News (Sunday, March
>> 6, 2005, page 10).

>> Diana Diamond reports asking a consultant at an Apple Computer retail store's
>> "Genius Bar" what was the principal repair problem with laptop Macs. "Wine,"
>> was the answer. People drinking and typing, spilling on the keyboard, "which
>> basically ruins the computer," requiring "almost a four-figure" repair job.
>
>Well, that's the issue right there. Despite being popular, notebooks
>are really actually specialized appliances. You pay a premium for a
>compact, integrated package.

>At home, I rarely type on a notebook. Ordinary computers with ordinary
>$10 USB keyboards are what I drink wine or coffee at.

Exactly, and if you're going to spill coffee over your keyboard, by laughing
explosively over some item in afw, then you need a wireless USB keyboard
with your portable, so you just trash your $20 keyboard!


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