Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:52:31 +0100 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba Laptop Selection
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 02:30, you wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:29:02 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba Laptop Selection > > In a message dated 7/13/2004 9:48:52 AM Mountain Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:31:55 EDT > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Toshiba Laptop Selection > > > > > > Fellow listers: > > > > > > I'm in the process of selecting a laptop PC for my daughter, who will > > > head off to college in August. Being a Libretto devotee, I'd prefer to > > > get a Toshiba of some flavor, but I'm not as educated as I'd like on > > > the older models that I can afford. I'm looking for a PII machine, in > > > the 300-400mHz range, preferably not a heavyweight but fairly > > > light/thin, maybe a 10.4" or 12" LCD. Can anyone help me out with > > > suitable models I should be focusing on? Thanks. > > > > Lee, > > > > From your criteria, you're probably looking at a portege. I have both the > > 7020CT and the 3480CT. > > <snip> > > Neil, > > May I pick your brain on the 7020CT (7010 is similar I assume)? I'm > wondering about DOS hibernation. Are these Porteges plagued with the > Libretto hibernation issues, e.g., must I set up a blank area on the HDD > for it? If not, do you know how it's handled? Thanks for any info you can > supply. It's just a smaller disk/memory version if I recollect properly. For what it's worth, I had the 7020 running with a 60GB disk in before I bought the 3840 and swapped the disks round. Do you know, the question of hibernation has never arisen... :) There's - afaik - no requirement for a defined partition if you're using a fat32 file system on your first partition. I certainly haven't made one or left any spaces, and I haven't noticed any missing files. With W2K I think the bios talks to windows to organise file storage; I suppose this means you need to have sufficient space on the C partition to save the backup file - basically, memory size plus four meg or so for the display. Unfortunately I can't investigate; daughter has stolen the machine while I've been on my travels :) If you hibernate windows, (and recalling that I have a winnux dual boot machine), on restarting the machine it begins with the boot loader - if I select linux it just gets on with it, if I start windows it un-hibernates as expected. But it's very rare I hibernate; battery life for standby is a couple of hundred hours so that's a much faster option in both directions, and it has *never* overheated... and I run it in some pretty hot places. I guess she'll be fine with it ( and possibly most important to her, if you put a big disc in, it's quite fast enough to decode mp3s!) Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
