Ahem... Laptop drives are now available up to 80GB!! There's even 7200 RPM models in 40GB sizes. So you can have speed or storage. Down time? I can ghost your drive in a few hours time.
Yup. Mr O. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason wrote: > > > I am a bit embarrassed to say I am using Mandrake 7.2, still > with a > > 2.2 kernel, on my secondary work laptop > > I hear you, Brother! > > My primary laptop is stuck at Mandrake 7.1. Kernel 2.2.19, > KDE 1.1.2. Can't seem to reach escape velocity to upgrade it. > > It's easier to upgrade a desktop PC -- build the new system on > a spare > disk (or even a spare box), and keep the old disk around as > secondary > for a few months until you're sure you're done with it. You > can't do > that on a laptop. Laptops only have one drive, and it's never > big > enough for extra copies. > > I can't afford to have the laptop down or partially > nonfunctional > for an unknown duration, so I haven't upgraded it since 7.1. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
