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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
Do you want your notebook to be portable as well?
If you are using photoshop on it, I would suggest you look at a laptop with a larger, high-res screen for working on your photos (and by extension, these laptops will generally be more powerful as well)
As for phone, if you live just outside Okotoks, any company should work, but I would lean towards Bell/Telus as I believe they have better coverage outside of the major metro centers.
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I would like my laptop/notebook to be free enough to wander around the house with it. I have a desktop in a home office right now. Who doesn't want to surf while watching TV? But I don't have any particular plans to use it out of the house although. I've never been one to exchange more than an e-mail or two with an assistant while on vacation and I can do that with a free hotel computer.
If your going to tether your phone for internet, make sure you can reliably get 3g service. Not sure if Bellus even offers Edge service but Edge on Rogers/Fido would be unusable. I am able to get 3g in Okotoks.
I do have cell service at my house. I also have a Kindle that does wi-fi most excellently there.
But it's not too much further west before you have trouble with cell service. I tried to make a call from Millarville the other day and didn't have a signal, and dips, hills and valley's are problems in the area. We have a beautiful view but we're tucked nicely away into the side of a hill, sheltered from Okotoks.
So, yeah, I've heard the 3G thing is important. Not sure how I'd test that though.
So we now have a static IP address, which I think we only share with a maximum of 20 people? Makes a huge difference for speed.
Who is your provider? I hadn't heard that before.
My current computer, I think, is stuffed to gills, so that isn't helping either.
Cowperson