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Subject: Re: PC for Chess....?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 18:57:01 04/07/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 19:18:40, Alan Grotier wrote:

>
> Lap top or Table.
>
> I have a compaq laptop for business on which I have F8 & CM9.
> It's the Evo N410c c/w Win XP prof.The small lighter model.It has 512 ram &
> runs at 1.2Ghz speed

That should be fast enough to do blunderchecks.  Doing blunderchecks after your
casual games is a good idea in general.

>
> If you travel you need the special heavy duty battry to get 3.5hrs continue.
> It gets hot.  [What gets hot?  The battery or the laptop?]

That's why they call it a laptop.  You use it to keep your lap warm during the
Winter.  : )

>I have had it for 3yrs and no real prob's.

The radiation is slowly killing you but you don't know it.  You will probably
die from lap cancer at an early age [before 60].  : )

>
> Both F8 & CM9K work well. In fact when I play against CM9K on the table top I
> use the laptop F8 to analyse difficult positions.
>
> I would recommend this Compaq laptop............Alan



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