Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:00:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tina Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1100v, camera, and English
Unfortunately the Libretto ff1100 only has one PCI
slot, but I think CDW has a USB DVD drive.
I will report back once I've bitten the bullet.
Are there any tricks to configuring things to work
together?
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Pres Waterman wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:50:25 -0700
> From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 1100v, camera, and English
>
> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:42:24 -0400
> From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 1100v, camera, and English
>
>
> >
> > Another question. I'm contemplating getting a
> > DVD-ROM drive to replace my CD drive, but I'm nervous
> > about the MPEG decompression. One of the drives I was
> > looking at recommended at least a 350 MHz CPU for the
> > software-based decompression, which is what they all
> > use. Does anyone out there have any experience with
> > DVD and Librettos, or any ideas?
>
>
> I have. Software decompression is dicey even at 400+ MHz. Heck, I have a
> 600+ MHz laptop and it still stutters.
>
> No, I would recommend a hardware PCMCIA card called MARGI or its Dell
> equivalent. You find them on ebaY for $100~ish
>
> Provided your Libretto has 2 slots, of course. I don't know if it was only
> the L1x0 series that had 2, one for the MARGI and one for the DVD player
>
> Pres Waterman, W2PW
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