Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:30:35 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba Laptop Selection
Raymond wrote: > > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:41:08 +0800 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Toshiba Laptop Selection > > I purchased a Portege 7220CTe off eBay myself for $550AUD shipped (around > $300USD direct conversion), PIII650, 13" 1024x768 screen, 20GB HDD, 128 meg > of RAM, just on an inch thick. It's been serving me real well (yes OK, > blasphemy to a Libretto purist but nice as my 100CT was, the screen > realestate, or lack thereof, was starting to really get to me ...). > > The nice thing about it is that it's darn tough. It's one of few notebooks > of its era I know of that you could hold horizontally by grasping onto one > corner of the screen, when opened out flat, without flexing noticeably. The > top does show scratches quite badly though. It also doesn't have the > hibernation issue (it sees my 20 gig hard drive straight away). Bear in > mind though that AFAIK, it doesn't do a BIOS hibernation, it relies on the > hibernation provided by the operating system (so on the one hand it is file > system aware so you don't clobber bits of disk, on the other hand, other > operating systems like Linux would have a fun time trying to hibernate - > suspend still works though). Mandrake Linux, since v. 9.2, does feature hibernation (or suspend-to-disk, or whatever it's called), independent from the BIOS. For other distros, it can be compiled into the kernel. Just do something like: sudo /usr/sbin/pmsuspend2 (or was it /usr/bin/pmsuspend2) and watch the show..... (although neither hibernation nor a restore may be that fast, sometimes rebooting is faster.) And one warning may be in order here: - never ever write to a Windows partition from e.g., Linux while Windows is in a hibernated state. It may really blow up your Windows - it simply doesn't expect any disk changes. Philip ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
