Mouse buttons

Why can't laptops have three buttons, most mice have a scroll wheel after all. My 701 is a pain to use with the MMB setup to be left and right click simultaneously, this would be even worse with the buttons either side of the pad.

My FS AmiloA1630 had these problems...

1. screen went blank when I picked it up

2. LHS speaker failed

3. memory card reader corrupted transfered files

4. CD/DVD write failed

5. hard drive failed

6. only one of the 3 USB ports is USB 2.0 (they are all supposed to be)

7. and most recently XP has developed Altzeimers & forgets stuff (on a clean instal!)

Other than these little niggles it's a great machine and I look forward to giving FS my next load of hard earned cash (I don't think).

@W

"identikit laptots"

For some reason this brings to mind Octomom's offspring.

SD read speed

I believe many of today's laptop still deliver sub-par performing SD card readers. They manage 1 MB/s - 2 MB/s tops. They _should_ deliever ten times that speed.

My old Fujitsu wasn't only slow (reading SD cards) but also consumed 100% CPU power.

So I am very interested in learning about reader speeds with the latest generation of laptops and netbooks.