RE: Laptop Luxury

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - those Inspirons are pretty heavy - and get pretty hot. I have an
old 8100.

For bed surfing I was thinking about getting a tablet PC - very thin and
light and performance is pretty good now too - plus you can use
handwriting recognition which in my tests have found surprisingly
accurate :)

Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 March 2004 07:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Laptop Luxury


> I had thought of something like one of those "breakfast in
> bed" tray-tables with the folding legs for in bed (as the
> above method does leave you with a painful back after a few
> hours) and one of the "tray with beanbag on the bottom"
> things for when I'm sat downstairs but I haven't tried either.

Having a quick tidy up in the kitchen last night I saw that Jo at some
point
must have bought one of the "lap tray" things (basically a bit of
board
with
a wide flat beanbag attached to the underside) during one of her QVC /
Lakeland moments and - typically - it has been bought and shoved to one
side
never to be used again so I decided to give it a whirl.

So with the bed head stacked up with some nice comfy pillows, a freezer
ice
pack for my feet and the beanbag tray I started into my "get some work
email
done before going to sleep" routine...

...much comfier than the usual "Surfin' Superman" pose I have to
say and
no
laptop induced warmth either. Might need a bigger "tray" as the
laptop
is
pretty sizeable (I've got an Inspiron 8000 on loan from a friend at the
moment) but certainly worth a try Rob. Now I just need to find somewhere
for
one of those big back-rest cushions as raiding the spare bed for an
extra
stack of pillows just isn't on. (Jesus I think I just aged thirty years
-
I'll be looking at Saga holidays and comfortable zip-up slippers next!)

Phil




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