03-23-2008, 09:03 AM | #46 |
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If you were to pay the US price for the deluxe package, you'd be paying about 624SGD. This is where the pricing goes wrong (IMHO).
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03-24-2008, 10:24 AM | #51 |
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aha ! that's good to know. that could be the case now, as i had to start using a mousepad when i got my new desk (for some reason, it had a hard time following on this color, which is a medium to light wood color), and the one i had lying around has a black and white photo screened on it. however it happened on my old desk as well, with no mousepad at all, and that desk was a very light (almost white) wood color. so i still think dust refracting the angle of the laser (or whatever it is...) might be at least part of the problem. maybe i should find a new mousepad though, with no black in it....
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I have a laptop in which the mouse pointer v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y drifts to the left if you leave it alone. That's VERY annoying. I must try replacing the mouse; presumably that's where the problem lies. It's an optical mouse.
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03-27-2008, 05:20 AM | #54 |
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You should google on that because I seem to remember it is a common problem. I do not think it is the mouse. For Dell computers there are theories that it is the "stick pointer" that can cause the problem.
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Thanks, I'll try doing that. It's a Sony laptop which has a "touch pad", but I'm using a USB Microsoft optical mouse with it. My Dell desktop machine, on which I'm using the same model of mouse, doesn't have the problem.
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03-27-2008, 06:31 AM | #56 |
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I had the same problem a few years ago with a dell laptop and the problem was the touchpad.
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Were you able to fix it?
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03-27-2008, 11:22 AM | #58 |
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As far as I remember it was a known hardware issue with that model und I just disabled the touchpad (bios or Windows System manager), because I almost always use an external mouse anyway.
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Some of the older generations ThinkPads T20/T40 has this problem with the trackpoint (not touchpad). A software upgrade resolved this. I have no idea if this is due to hardware or software to start with.
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At that time, 1$ was 1.1CHF. The Cybook costs 490CHF with 65CHF shipping from France to Switzerland... In dollars that would be 410$ w/o VAT or shipping. With the current exchange rate, that would be more than 450$ w/o VAT or shipping. The first price is 14%, the second is 28% above US prices. The price seemed to be a mean of the EUR and $ prices. Needless to say, Bookeen did not reply to email. Last edited by Ramen; 03-29-2008 at 11:47 AM. Reason: typo |
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