Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:49:12 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Wheeee!
Wheee! I'm now a proud owner of a L100! (yea so now I'm a greedy Libretto owner ... until I sell my L50 to my sister) ... It is noticeably bigger and heavier than the L50 (I gotta get myself bigger pockets now!) but the screen certainly is significantly nicer ... its got the 64 meg of RAM on board and the 2 gig hard drive (although I'll be moving my 20 gig hard drive into there) and it boots up a damn sight quicker than my old one (must be the RAM ... IIRC its only a P166 which isn't an awful lot faster than my P100 L50). I got the libby, power supply and advanced port replicator (having 4 PCMCIA slots is nice!) ... no docking bar though (did these actually COME with them?) or floppy drive. The docking bar for my L50 doesn't seem to want to fit (the docking connector seems to be a little larger in the L100) but the floppy diskette drive from my L50 seems to work OK ... I don't think I did too badly for $875AUD (about $437USD). I couldn't see any bad pixels on the screen, no dead keys on the keyboard (the keyboard itself is a UK keyboard so its got the pound sign and all the right keys in the wrong places ;-) ... I keep pressing AltGr instead of spacebar, # instead of \ and @ instead of " but I'll get used to that (or I'll set Windows back to International keyboard and write new symbols on the keys keys so its like a SANE PERSON'S keyboard!). One thing that did puzzle me somewhat was why even though there is more space in the L100, its still got those plastic spacers under the hard drive (like on the L50/70) to accomodate the 8.5mm hard drive ... I had to remove them to get my 9.5mm 20 gig hard drive to fit. Some things I'd like to ask ... for those of you with both librettos, any quirks/issues between the 2 that might land me in the drink (especially regarding the layout of the internals)? For that matter, any quirks I should be aware of? Is it normal for the mouse buttons to be significantly stiffer on the L100 than the L50? Can someone with the L100 manual tell me what the 4 LEDs in their various blink states actually DO (they're obviously different to the way the L50 works). This L100 doesn't seem to do the 'write to hard drive during suspend' thingy (I go start>suspend and it suspends straight away, I know it hasn't written anything because if I pull all power and the battery then power back on it fails to recover) ... is that a setting somewhere or is that controlled from Windows now? I realize in power management you can set it to hibernate on panel close or on power button but it was sorta nice in the L50 where I could go suspend and if I needed to power back on in the next 20 minutes I could do so instantly whilst if the power died I could still resume from hibernation (this one actually caught me a bit ... the power profile was for 'always on' so whenever I suspended or hibernated, the laptop would turn itself back on!). If it does hibernate somewhere, does it shove the hibernation stuff in exactly the same place as the L50? I left about 120 meg free either side of 1024 cylinders on my old hard drive, should this be fine for the L100? I do have EZ-Bios installed and it seems to see all of the drive ... Does anyone know if its possible to access the processor temperature sensor on the L100 in software? Alternatively does it nicely hibernate when it overheats? I don't think I'll be overclocking it but then again it does get hot round here ... I just pulled the hard drive out and it was too hot to touch! Regarding batteries, is the extended pack for the L100 the same size as the standard pack? Whats the capacity and approximate real-use runtime on each? Regarding operating system choice, given a choice between Win95OSR2 and Win98SE, which one would be better to use? Win95OSR2 is faster for the same RAM and fully supports the Libby's APM stuff but it doesn't have USB support ... Win98SE has more features and has USB but according to Toshiba, APM doesn't work on it. Have people got APM working on Win98SE using the L100? (I'm talking things like PROPER hibernation, going into suspend but saving HDD contents so it will flip over to hibernation after X minutes, redetecting devices on resume, etc.). Any advice appreciated! (Well OK not ANY but ... meh) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. 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