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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Speaking of upgrades... #125777 03/22/2004 2:48 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Advertisements now say notebooks, sometimes. Is this the new term for laptop? Are the two actually different creatures? Are laptops going the way of, first Beta and now VHS, movies? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125778 03/22/2004 3:15 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Believe a notebook is a smaller version of the same beast and a marketing thing and that everything is going Beta way. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125779 03/22/2004 12:35 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK My understanding is that a notebook computer is the same size (in plan) as a sheet of A4 paper. A4 is a paper size used internationally except west of the Atlantic, east of the Pacific, and probably north of Mexico and south of Canada. If they are smaller than that they are termed sub-notebooks. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125780 03/22/2004 12:51 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York dixbie, how subtle. Is it what USns would call 8 1/2 x 11? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125781 03/22/2004 1:07 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 It's a little bigger than 8-1/2 x 11. Just enough bigger that you have to drag out the A4 paper and load up the tray if you want to make a copy that has the fine print at the top and bottom. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125782 03/22/2004 1:35 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California A4 == 210 x 297 mm == 8.2677165 x 11.6929134 inches. So it's a little narrower and longer. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html http://https://www.cstsales.com/Main/converter.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125783 03/22/2004 1:38 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK It's 210 mm x 297 mm (that's a trimmed sheet). I forget why those particular dimensions, but someone probably knows. I know the basic size is the A0 size which has a plan area of 1 square metre, if you fold A0 in half you have A1, fold it again and you have A2 etc. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125784 03/22/2004 2:13 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California dxb, if you look at the first url I posted earlier in the thread, they explain what the ratio is and how it was chosen, etc. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Speaking of upgrades... #125785 03/22/2004 3:38 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK Yup! That more than does it, thanks. Your post beat mine by 2.5 minutes and I didn't check back to the thread after my posting until just now . Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter beaten by a nose #125786 03/22/2004 3:57 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country grapho addict grapho addict Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country Your post beat mine by 2.5 minutes and I didn't check back to the thread after my posting Looks like you were beaten out by a nose and didn't know it, dxb. Jimmy Durante used to say: "The nose, knows." But sometimes the nose doesn't know. Don't give it a minute's thought. Anyone in the know knows your nose knows nothing about it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: beaten by a nose #125787 03/23/2004 4:29 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Youse sayin sumpin bout ma nose? Ma che sciagura! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: beaten by a nose #125788 03/23/2004 11:50 AM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country grapho addict grapho addict Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country Ma che sciagura! What's Che Guevarra's cigar got to do with it? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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