Posts by Labmouse

The locking tabs in the LCD housing are incredibly fragile (at least on my CL56) I think I broke 8 out of the 12 tabs in mine when I took it apart. Be very careful when taking apart the LCD housing.

Due to the very square shape of the laptop, the paint will wear very quickly from the corners of the CL56 if you carry it around in a bag a lot. I've had mine for about 2 months and the paint on the corners of the lid are wearing thin...

Micro Center stocks chembook laptops at their stores...at least the one local to me does.

Yup that's a typo

I use 1024*768 or 1280*1024 on my desktop. My laptop has 1400*1050, but I find everything looks a bit to small. I'm a fan of 1280*800

Quote: Originally Posted by nark rofl....funny. a defect is a defect, you guys shouldnt try and sugarcoat it. I don't know of any industry that just allows defects, can anyone give me an...

Quote: Originally Posted by hardcore76 Do you activately check dead pixels whenever you sit infront of an LCD? I've used dozens of LCDs, and there hasn't been one where i sat down and just noticed off the bat. My...

Quote: Originally Posted by Juice5557 I just dont like the look of that laptop. It could benefit form 512 mb of ram. Preferably widescreen screens would be nice You don't have a lot of choices in the...

I recently bought a Compal CL56 and after a few days worth of use, noticed it had 4 partially lit pixels. Even though 3 of them are in a vertical line, they only appear on dark backgrounds and do not bother me at all, must be the high...

The Kensington cable locks are basically to keep people from just walking away with your laptop. Unless you have the key or the combination number you'll have a hard time removing it from your laptop without breaking the laptop. The...