[PLUG] What do you call a portable computer that ...

[Robert Citek]

Google for "laptop with swivel screen" and you'll get a bunch of hits
to choose from, including these two:

http://www.picknshipcomputers.com/dell-latitude-xt3-13.3-inch-notebook-i5-2.5ghz-4gb-ram-320gb-hdd-windows-7-pro/

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/elitebook-revolve/landing.html?jumpid=re_r11260/new-products/elitebook-revolve_redirect

Good luck.

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> What do you call the kind of portable computer where the screen can be
> swiveled around and folded so that you're holding it the way you'd hold
> a tablet? I thought I'd seen the designation netbook applied to them,
> but the ones I've looked up don't offer the feature that makes it kind
> of like a tablet.
>
> My objective is to have a device that uses a decent sized hard drive so
> I can put my entire music collection on it and be able to leave it
> running in the car, connected to my car's stereo Aux port, but not
> requiring that it be kept open like a laptop.
>
> The tablets I've seen don't have the local storage capacity I want. I
> currently have about 28 GB of MP3 files. But I have about six feet of
> LPs that, one of these days, I'll get around to copying to MP3s. So, a
> 250 GB drive or better would be good.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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