Do you know you can listen to the cd without turning on the laptop

[sunshine]

Do you know on the widescreen model, if you turn the wireless switch on while the laptop is off your laptop becomes a standalone cd player. The laptop remains off and you access the cd player functions via the front keys.

The output via headphones is also pretty decent. Enough to drive a pair of Sennheisers HD600 which are pretty difficult to drive cans to begin with.

[geekrock99]

thanks for the nfo.

geekrock99

[Ioman]

Originally posted by sunshine
Do you know on the widescreen model, if you turn the wireless switch on while the laptop is off your laptop becomes a standalone cd player. The laptop remains off and you access the cd player functions via the front keys.

The output via headphones is also pretty decent. Enough to drive a pair of Sennheisers HD600 which are pretty difficult to drive cans to begin with.

Yeah I knew about this feature. I used it on my plane ride to Vegas actually. Make sure you have some headphones with a long cord thought, unless you want the laptop in your lap lol. I kept mine in its bag and just used the long cord to listen. Seems to work pretty good.

[geekrock99]

you can enable "Web scroll" thingie when you press the left and the right touch pad botton at the same time.

maybe yo'all already know about this...

geekrock99

[Angus]

I happen to like the feature where you can run your finger up and down the right (and bottom) edge of the touchpad to stroll pages up/down and left/right. It only takes one finger instead of 3 to do the web scroll thing. The only downside I can see is tha the edge of the touchpad on the bottom isn't very easy to feel so half the time I end up putting my finger just above the two buttons which isn't part of the touchpad area.

I also happen to like using the top edge of the touchpad as back/forward in Internet Explorer. Very handy because you can use your thumbs for this function if you have your hands on the keyboard.