How do I use my laptop away from home is there something to buy?
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Most hotels, if they do not provide free wireless internet, will provide free wired internet.  If you don't want to be wired, I would suggest taking your Linksys router along with you, but then you'll have to reconfigure.  If the hotel has a wireless connection, they can provide you with information to use the wireless network, and at most hotels, the person at the desk can actually help you configure if you bring your computer to them.  The only thing you would need for a wired connection, if there is not other option, is an Ethernet cable.  Either Cat5 or Cat5e will be fine.  Some of the hotels I've been to provide a cord, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
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Throw out all your junk.  Furnish your living space with a single stool, a beach towel for a mattress and a coke can for a pillow.\nMight want to get a laptop... that's about all you need!
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That's a matter of opinion, like which is better, a Chevy or a Ford? Find the reviews and check out the magazines buy the people who do that for a living.\n\nWhat they won't ask you is if you really need a laptop. Do you really need to be mobile, or is it just an occasional maybe thing? Are you going to try and use a laptop as a primary computer? If so, stop right there and re-evaluate. \n\nLook at all of the people on these forums that run out of hard disk space, run out of memory, and are needing the full flexability of a desktop.\n\nI realize I'm outside your question, but you'd be surprised how many people buy a laptop because they're a cute gadget and make you look cool, then spend time with a cramped keyboard and screen and no mouse and their life is miserable, compared to the real deal.
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What do you mean by 30 miles away?\n\nIs your home 30 miles away?\nAre you 30 miles from a phone/cable?\n\nRight now, the best way to get Net access on a laptop miles away from anything is with a card that accesses cellular phone networks.\n(If you have coverage). Unfortunately, the cards aren't cheap and monthly charges START around $50 or so.
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Depends what is the purpose of the laptop. If you need to travel a lot, make sure to get something light, with wifi. If you are not going to travel, get the cheapest one you can find through deals (usually dell) sites. Here is an example of an expired deal:\nhttp://www.slickdeals.net/#p7570
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You have to buy a Cellular PCMCIA card and service for your laptop. You can get them from most major cellular companies like Verizon or Cingular.\n\nhttp://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.html\nhttp://www.cingular.com/indexc
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Right now there is a great deal on a laptop that is good for basic home use. It is an HP and you can get it for $299.99 after a hundred dollar mail in rebate. There are some restrictions but I will definitely be getting one... It is such a steal! Check out all the details at the links below...\n\nhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/17/circu...\nhttp://techdirt.com/articles/20061115/16...\nhttp://news.com.com/notebooks+dropping+t...\nhttp://bfads.net/pop/3772\n\nOh ya you can actually get the notebook for $99.99 but you have to jump through a lot of hoops and it will probably will end up costing you more in the end...\n\nGood Luck!
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You'll probably want to purchase a USB hard drive or a DVD writer.  Depending on your literacy with computers, I would suggest buying an external drive.  \n\nIf you don't want external devices porting from your PC, I would suggest getting a motherboard with RAID and mirror your data.  You can go to any search engine to look up RAID and for external devices.\n\nWestern Digital is the best by far for external devices.\n\nGigabyte has really good motherboards.\n\n\nHope this helps\n\nI just read that you have an Apple, you are going to want to get an external Hard Drive off of the apple.com website or purchase an Ipod the expensive ones cost about $299.\n\nhttp://www.apple.com
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If it has a USB port you can get (or borrow) a USB CDROM drive. If it has a floppy disc drive you can maybe get software on floppy disc for internet access. They may even make CDROM drives that can hook up to the parallel port if the laptop has one. If it has an ethernet jack, you could hook it up to your cable modem with an ethernet hub or switch really easy.
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Not as far as I know, there might be some third party software that allows it, but the best way to do it would be to set up a temporary guest account that he/she can use while accessing your laptop.
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1st Saturdays in Dallas, Texas at the West End. Computer festival. More like a flea market. Check and see if there is something like this in your neck of the woods. Hey, you may get a cool, stolen, government, Dell laptop. They will cut deals but what you get...well be warned. That is why it is wise to spend more money on a laptop. lol....
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If your home/office use is nothing more than surfing the internet and using office applications, then more or less any pc made within the last 4/5 years will be able to do that. You do not need to spend large amounts of money unless you plan to do photo/video editing, gaming, multimedia tasks, or lots of things at once.\nIf you need to carry the computer about, a laptop is recommended.\nA good basic spec is a desktop processor of 2.5ghz or more, or a mobile processor of 1.5ghz or more. 256mb RAM is a good idea, and a hard drive of 40gb is probably the minimum.\nOther components can be whatever you like
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i hope u can get it from manufacturer by paying and register as a owner of laptop. other options are avilabel there will be private firm which provide warannty for ur laptop by charging some money yearly. but it will be helpful only when ur use is extensive. otherwise it will be costly
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I'm from Virginia and I really don't think there is anyway you can trade it. You can always sell it and buy a laptop. Stop by Best Buy or Circuit City and ask the guys there, they might know.
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There are three methods you can use. \n\n1. If your laptop is wireless enabled, you can find either 'hotspots' in public places, or an unsecured wireless network, and log onto that, giving you internet access. \n\n2. You can buy a data card, a PCMCIA card which goes into one of the slots on your laptop. You insert a mobile phone sim card, and off you go. Both Vodaphone and T-Mobile in the UK do decent ones on contract.\n\n3. If you have the software CD that came with your mobile, you can use it asa modem via either a cable connection (USB), the Infra-Red port on the laptop or, if the laptop has it, bluetooth. \n\nAny one of those options will do the trick. For convenience, the data card is the best, if most expensive, option - you have to buy the card or sign a contract to get a free one, although the cost of transferring data is quite small.... I have a T-Mobile GSM card, which cost £160 when it was new, but I get 100Mb of data a month free. The mobile phone route is the cheapest in terms of equipment, but make sure you check how much your phone provider will charge you for receiving data - it can be quite expensive per meg of data transferred.
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Get a wireless router.  Use the laptops wifi connection.
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Most laptops come with wireless ability built in.\n\nSome public places have free and open wireless networks that you can connect to.  Some (such as your mom's house or a friend's house) have wireless networks that might require you to enter in a password before you can use them.