My Toshiba A45-S120 laptop has turned into a TRS80. I have run all the usual tests and no matter what I do it runs at about 1/10 speed. new memory, memtest86, kernel compile's, several heavy compiles without errors, test live cd's are slow, everything is slow without errors. I can draw on the screen with the bouncy icon as a program starts up. I have been discussing laptops here to: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4391315.html#4391315 and am thinking of a Dell: Intel® Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.20GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 667Mhz Dual Core OPERATING SYSTEM FreeDOS Operating System Kit LCD PANEL 14.1 inch Wide Screen WXGA LCD Panel MEMORY 2.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS edit HARD DRIVE 80GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD-RW/DVD Data Only VIDEO CARD Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 WI-FI WIRELESS CARD Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-Band Mini Card Standard Touchpad (hopefully means no fingerprint thinggy) PRIMARY BATTERY 9 Cell Primary Battery
The only other laptop that I am considering is the ThinkPad X61 Intel® Core 2 Duo L7700 but people are telling me the screen will be too small I like that is does not have a optical drive (they are like 5.5 floppys to me) and weighs almost 1/2 of the dell. although I do not like the think pad windows tax since we are linux only over here. My basic requirements are good CPU / FSB, portable and light yet readable screen, readable outside / different angles, reliability. willing to consider anything.I am definitly Not a gamer. Will occasionaly watch a movie on it. Will plug in to stereo if I want amork tunes etc. Also any recomendations on a really well equiupd shop that could confirm the a45 has bit the dust for under $100? Or any warining dont go here's?? as it would be nice to not have a big expense for a wile longer. cheers turtle _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
