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G'day Rod and other, thanks for your replies to my original request.
Now following up seeking more info on "wireless", please:

In article <4fr1c8F1jojn5U1@individual.net>, "Rod Speed" 
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote
[...]
>> Anyway, I was looking at the specs of several notebook "specials"
>> (end of fin year and all that :) so I'm wondering what you good folk
>> out there think of these models.  (My apologies in advance for the
>> shape of the following "table", but a fixed font may *help* interpret it.)
>
>I personally avoid AMD cpus for laptops and insist on a Celeron M too.
>
>I also insist on built in wireless, essentially because the antennas in the
>lid work a hell of a lot better than addon wireless, not directional at all
> etc.

I don't think the Dell has that feature.  The blurb says something 
like this, talking about built-in wireless support:
    Internal 802.11b/g or a/b/g that allows quick connection 
    to an Internet wireless hot spot ... Then goes on to give 
    pricing options for those two types of Mini-PCI cards.
That suggests to me that one needs to buy a card to use wireless and, 
I presume, the card would come with some sort of external antenna?

Also, the jargon means bugger all to me, but the a/b/g card costs 
rather more than the simpler b/g one.  What's the diff in practice, 
bearing in mind I don't have a home wireless network yet?

>> Dell Inspiron 1300   Compaq Presaria v2627  Toshiba Satellite A100/301
>> CPU:  Celeron M380   AMD Sempron 1.8GHz     Celeron M 1.4GHz
>> RAM:  512MB DDR2     512MB                  256MB
>> HDD:  40GB           40GB                   40GB
>> VDU:  15.4" Wide     14" Wide               15.4" Wide?
>> CD/DVD 24x Combo     Combo                  Combo
>> O/S:   XP Home       XP Home                XP Home
>> Wireless: Yes        Yes?                   Yes?
>
>If it doesnt say its got wireless, it hasnt got it.
>About half of the lowend laptops dont have it built in.
>
>> Price:    $899       $849 (cashback)        $994

Another point with the Dell, it has an option to buy a "spare" power 
adapter, but nowhere does it say the system comes *with* one!  Is it 
assumed all laptops come with an adapter to run off the mains and, if 
so, what is the advantage of having a spare one?

And, Rod, I've posted a query to a.s.p-c.d [not xposted to 
aus.computers] re that HDD temperature issue as you suggested.

Cheers, Phred.

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