Submitted for your consideration...
"Review: MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software—for
better or worse"
2022 JAN 31 by Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica
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WSL mention on WinSvr page).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Showtime was itself a `Linux boutique',
just to say that they are apparently capable of assembling the same laptop
hardware as ZaReason and ThinkPenguin
were selling when last I'd looked; I'm not sure what the Showtime staff's level
of Li
screwdriver in the box).
BUT...:
ThinkPenguin relocated to New Hampshire (Keene!) a few years ago.
And Showtime PC in Hudson also started doing custom-built laptops a while ago.
And Showtime and ThinkPenguin presently seem to be using the same ODM laptop
kits
as ZaReason are using
e cpu
> fan recently though, bearings were going.
>
> It might be worth investigating if you can get LineageOS onto the
> chromebook. I recently recycled a Samsung
> Galaxy S4 from Android 4.4 to Android 9 using LOS (r16?). Thing screams
> now.
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 4:07 PM
Android 9 using LOS (r16?). Thing screams now.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 4:07 PM Tom Buskey wrote:
> I tend to use my laptop in one place so I don't really use the battery. I
> want chrome, xterminals and ssh to my servers.
>
> I had T61p laptops with 8GB and SSD for a long time unti
I tend to use my laptop in one place so I don't really use the battery. I
want chrome, xterminals and ssh to my servers.
I had T61p laptops with 8GB and SSD for a long time until the power
supplies got flakey.
I upgraded to a T420s from ebay ($100ish) plugged the SSD from the T61p and
just kept
class* Thinkpads and they
have never failed me.
Peter
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 1:17 PM Mark Ellison wrote:
> Hi-
>
> As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
>
> I have been using the Lenovo Thinkpad line of laptops with Fedora Linux.
>
> Cu
son wrote:
> > Hi-
> >
> > As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
>
> I use a Dell 6430 at work, and everything works with Debian. It's been
> a solid workhorse.
>
> My Mom is now using a 6430 since her machine flaked out and I knew
>
I have a Dell inspiron 13 5378. This is a 13" touchscreen with an SSD. and
dual core I7.
My wife has an Asus. She broke her screen the first day we bought it at
Microcenter, and it took a very long time for them to get the laptop
repaired. In contrast, I had a Lenovo when I worked for Re
On 9/14/19, Mark Ellison wrote:
> Hi-
>
> As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
I use a Dell 6430 at work, and everything works with Debian. It's been
a solid workhorse.
My Mom is now using a 6430 since her machine flaked out and I knew
this w
Hi-
As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
I have been using the Lenovo Thinkpad line of laptops with Fedora Linux.
Currently, have a short list of laptops- the Lenovo Thinkpad T490 and the
HP ProBook, Zbook or Elite with the i7 4-core 8M cache. Screen should
Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well.
Season's greetings, etc...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:47:37 -0500, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well.
Season's greetings, etc...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html
The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang,
it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this
kind and it would be priced to reflect that.
It seems like there's room in the laptop market between cheap
and artisanal.
Yah, I'm happy to enourage his efforts
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:45:25 -0500, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang,
it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this
kind and it would be priced to reflect that.
It seems like there's room
When: December 19, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for QA)
Topic: Building an ARM Laptop with Raspberry Pi
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315
Summary
Federico discusses turning a Raspberry Pi into a laptop
Please note that this is a change from the previously scheduled
When: December 19, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for QA)
Topic: Building an ARM Laptop with Raspberry Pi
Moderator:Federico Lucifredi
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315
Summary
Federico discusses turning a Raspberry Pi into a laptop
Please note that this is a change from the previously scheduled
a powerful laptop (for, I dunno, portable gaming
something?) that runs Linux right from the vendor, I have no advice.
Oh, I've decided that I'm happy just ordering from ZaReason, for that
(the laptop that I got from them for work, a year ago, continues
to be one of the nicest I've ever lain my hands
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
I'm less concerned about the `Windows Tax', though, than I am about
the whole EUFI `Secure Boot' business and the issue of whether
I'll even be able to buy a new laptop to run Linux in the future
Woops. I meant to send this to more than just Josh.
Follow up:
I went with the ZaReason Strata 6770, pimped out with the slower
(2.2GHz versus 2.5GHz) core i7, 8GB RAM, a 750GB 7200RPM disk, and Tux
logo and on the key between FN and left Alt (nominally the Windows
key).
I did wind up
Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org writes:
On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
http://www.system76.com/
I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also
own a netbook.
Speaking
On 04/15/2012 04:21 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Actually, I'm considering a new laptop, too. I love my Gateway, but it lacks
one significant thing: the ability to hold 8 GB of RAM, which is *really
handy*
for running virtuals. Additionally, if I need that extra oomph to run 64-bit
virtuals
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU?
You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
Core logic chipset, video chipset, disk
On 04/15/2012 08:36 AM, Bill Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU?
You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
Actually, I'm considering a new laptop, too. I love my Gateway, but it lacks
one significant thing: the ability to hold 8 GB of RAM, which is *really handy*
for running virtuals. Additionally, if I need that extra oomph to run 64-bit
virtuals that i3's don't have, that would be big, too.
So
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days.
Not quite, if I understand correctly. I wouldn't want, for example, a
core i3, since it doesn't support virtualization technology, so I
wouldn't be
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick
what broad class of device you want to look at.
I hate other people's ontologies, sometimes
Dell is particularly bad when it comes to
is inaccurate.
My current laptop uses a chip
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7550 @ 2.26GHz
that the Intel site listed as having VT-x. Unfortunately, that was not
true. In actual practice, it has not mattered for me. Virtual Box has
been able to run the guests I needed
On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
http://www.system76.com/
I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also
own a netbook.
The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy
part from a 3rd party (and cheaper to,
despite it being a Dell part) that had the part, and would ship to APO
address.
I've avoided Dell since then - at least for consumer / personal stuff.
HP, well my current laptop has a bad DVD drive - known problem with
his model laptop. The answer appears
On 04/13/2012 04:17 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
C'mon. We're in New Hampshire/MA. I can't believe nobody's mentioned my
personal favorite: https://www.google.com/search?q=decwriter
After the computer labs closed for the night on my campus, there was one
VT-102
per dorm. Except for one
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
who buy based
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
line instead. Inspiron is their consumer
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
who buy based on price and the color of the lid. Latitude
We have Lenovo Laptops at work. Some are T420 (Intel i5) and some are
T220 (Celeron). We've installed Virtualbox on some with 64-bit RHEL 5 as
a guest OS.
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Boston Linux and Unix
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PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1
On 04/12/2012 03:06 PM, Randy Cole wrote:
I've been rather disappointed with my few year old HP DV4-1222NR AMD
consumer-grade laptop. Slower than it should be, runs hot, power
adapter failed, battery failed early, mouse button broke, fan is now
failing, and the IDT sound chip has lots
Less useful account, perhaps.
In order to put off upgrading my Suse 10.1 desktop system (Firefox V2), last
year I decided to buy a cheap laptop, and found a $150 off deal on a Lenovo
G560 system for $400. I forget the specs, let me know if you want them.
It came with Windows 7 Home, the old
Bill Freeman writes:
Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons?
I've got a Dell Inspirion 1525 that I paid $400 for at the Dell
refurbished outlet (online). The machine is 3-4 years old at this
point. I use it for a couple of hours most days.
It's a $400 laptop
Asus has great laptop hardware, support, and protection plans available.
They tend to be very Linux friendly and some models are available with
Linux installed, last I knew, or maybe just with no OS. The current ASUS
website does not lend itself to figuring this out, or figuring out which
model
Hello Bill,
My last laptop was (still in use) a Lenovo T61. It was mistakenly ordered
with Vista. We only used XP and Linux. When XP was installed, it just
never worked - blue screened every day.So I inherited the misfit and
installed Linux. Works great. It is a nice work horse. Nice keybd
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Ohlemacher ohlemac...@gmail.comwrote:
I looked at Dell and bought a Precision M6500 I7. Dell gives us pretty
good corp discounts. It is currently running LMDE(xfce). It has been
great. We have several, others running Windoze.One coworker has had
Well, here's my two cents.
I have a Lenovo X201 tablet. It was expensive and the screen is small and you
probably don't need a tablet.
But, because the screen gets jerked around so much, it seems to be made better
than other Thinkpad models. The assembly is much sturdier and the screen can be
On 13-Apr-2012, David Ohlemacher ohlemac...@gmail.com sent:
My last laptop was (still in use) a Lenovo T61. It was
mistakenly ordered with Vista. We only used XP and Linux. When
XP was installed, it just never worked - blue screened every
day. So I inherited the misfit and installed Linux
On 4/13/12, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote:
And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor.
We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were
(mostly) better than Teletypes, and those were better than keypunches.
There was time of 320x200.
Many thanks to all. I have several avenues to explore, now that my
taxes are done.
I'll report back with my decision.
Bill
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0400 Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote
On 4/13/12, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote:
And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor.
We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were
(mostly) better than
Crud...
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
You sent this to me not the list.
On 04/13/2012 09:21 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
I used to get Toshiba. I liked the physical volume knob they *used*
to have.
My last 2 purchases were IBM/Lenovo. A cheap G450
On 4/13/12, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0400 Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote
On 4/13/12, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote:
And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop
monitor.
We really used 640x480 displays once upon a
My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite
reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the
case and whack it a few times, after which it boots.
So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD
CPU, but I'm currently drawn to an i7 or
My $DAYJOB has provided me with a rather capable Lenovo ThinkPad CORE i7 W520.
rather large for the daily commute the size of the power brick is unreasonable looks like an actual
full size brick.
Never had problems running Linux on the ThinkPad products. Unfortunately it was pre-installed
I've been rather disappointed with my few year old HP DV4-1222NR AMD
consumer-grade laptop. Slower than it should be, runs hot, power adapter
failed, battery failed early, mouse button broke, fan is now failing, and
the IDT sound chip has lots of driver support trouble vis. built-in mic
(HD
My own day job has me with a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 which has been pretty
solid and fast. It came with XP and is ready for 7 and I have a vm on it
with CentOS 6. The company is now issuing more Thinkpads that come with
8GB RAM and an option of RH, Fedora or Ubuntu. The RH laptop of a
colleague
a laptop without a copy of MS Windows
pre-loaded, they said that it wasn't possible for most models, but
they did have a couple of not-particularly-desirable models that were
available with FreeDOS installed, that they couldn't provide me
with any data about Linux compatibility of those models either
On 4/12/12, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
I have experience with ZaReason, and recommend them:
http://www.zareason.com/
I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also:
http://www.system76.com/
I'll consider these, thanks.
When I bought my and my
affected me.
-Ken
P.S. I love my three-year-old AMD dual-core 11.6 Gateway -- thew an
SSD in, and it positively flies. I just wish I could crank it past 4 GB
of RAM, which is what will probably propel me to a new laptop.
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Hello All,
I remember a couple of weeks ago, one of the list members said he repaired
laptops, and now I am in need of said services.
Would that member please contact me to discuss the problem.
Thanks
Chris
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A recent upgrade to a laptop left me with two spare RAM sticks:
1. New 2 Gb DDR2 667 MHz 200-pin SODIMM, mfr by Corsair, Value Select
VS2GSDS667D2
2. Used 1 Gb PC2-5300 CL5 1.8V (128Mx64) - Lenovo-labeled FRU: 40Y8403
OPT:40Y7738
Both worked fine and passed memory tests on my ThinkPad T60
On 09/26/2011 04:48 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
A recent upgrade to a laptop left me with two spare RAM sticks:
Thanks!
And... they're gone.
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Well, I've got a D-series laptop for parts at work. It's motherboard
is shot, but I can part with the keyboard if you're interested, albeit
I need a nominal fee since it's my company's property. I pulled it
out and confirmed that it's not the same U-shaped ribbon you've got.
If you want to try
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote:
Theres a catch. Many of the keyboards look the same on the top, but its
the ribbon that sets them apart.
Ah. The Latitude is Dell's business product line, and all the parts
are interchangeable by design. I'm not much
A friend has a laptop that the keyboard does not work correctly. I'm
looking at replacing the keyboard.
I would need a keyboard that fits a Dell PP21l. The current keyboard is
Model: NSK-D5G01
P/N 9J.N6782.G01
I know I can order online, but if possible would like to get this back
together soon
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote:
I would need a keyboard that fits a Dell PP21l.
Google says that translates to Inspiron 1300. Is that the correct model?
Google for Inspiron 1300 in turn leads me to:
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/9016.jpg
If
On 12/22/09 21:18, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote:
I would need a keyboard that fits a Dell PP21l.
Google says that translates to Inspiron 1300. Is that the correct model?
Google for Inspiron 1300 in turn leads me to:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Note that dd_rescue (rather than plain old dd) will atempt to continue the
copy operation even when it encounters bad sectors ...
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
--- On Sun, 12/13/09, Michael Nolin michaelno...@yahoo.com
wrote:
The laptop I bought the kids for Christmas
arrived and it
did not boot windoz 7. After an hour and a half
on the phone
with HP tech support I got
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:11 -0800, Michael Nolin wrote:
The return center passed me back to the techcenter which is processing
a recovery CD order which of course I had already asked for along with
the replacement hard drive.
It is amazing how these support centers work. When my new HP laptop
a recovery CD order which of course I had already asked for along with
the replacement hard drive.
It is amazing how these support centers work. When my new HP laptop
drive recently failed, they insisted on sending the Vista recovery CD
even though I assured them I had deleted Windows
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
FWIW, I won't buy HP if I think I'll ever need support.
HP's consumer computers absolutely stink from the standpoint of
software and customer service.
They pre-load tons of garbage software. Advertisements, remote
control
to anyone, outside of this
group who had time to burn rebuilding a laptop.
Mike
nailed to the perch .. deceased, expired, no more
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I ended up pulling out a SATA USB 3.5 hard drive enclosure,
booting Knoppix 6.01. Several 'fdisk -l' and 'dd if=/dev/baddisk
of=/dev/gooddisk' I was able to copy partition information, a
working boot sector, and the HP recovery partition. The first whole
disk copy was not successful as it
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Note that dd_rescue (rather than plain old dd) will atempt to continue the
copy operation even when it encounters bad sectors ...
There's also dd_rhelp, a wrapper for dd_rescue which will recover
the easy
The laptop I bought the kids for Christmas arrived and it did not boot windoz
7. After an hour and a half on the phone with HP tech support I got a case# and
an order number for a new hard drive due to arrive on the 17. HP's diagnostics
test 'hard drive:failed'.
The BIOS on this laptop
--- On Sun, 12/13/09, Michael Nolin michaelno...@yahoo.com wrote:
The laptop I bought the kids for Christmas arrived and it
did not boot windoz 7. After an hour and a half on the phone
with HP tech support I got a case# and an order number for a
new hard drive due to arrive on the 17. HP's
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Michael Nolin michaelno...@yahoo.com wrote:
... additional frantic F9 F10 ... F2 ... RETURN ...
Press lots of keys to abort
http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/plokta.html
-- Ben
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Here is my writeup of how I enabled dynamic display configuration for
my laptop. It may not work for you if you don't have an nVidia
display card.
I'm really happy with the fact that I spec'd my new laptops with the
nVidia card [1] b/c it just works better [2] than the previous machine
which had
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:34 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-22 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could
install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Excellent point. Somebody
On 01/21/2009 03:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:02 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway?
Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost.
The Vista laptop allows
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the
screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the
laptop after running the Windows restore.
I've seen the Dell sign in the window at Staples, but didn't
On 01/22/2009 12:55 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the
screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the
laptop after running the Windows restore.
I've
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
people who
bought Gateways, and only one of them got a system that worked perfectly
out of the box.
If you buy Gold Tech Support, what do you get if you buy a laptop with
Windows installed and install another OS,, like Fedora or Ubuntu.
Many of the proprietary chips are now being opened up
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Can the
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:55 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the
screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the
laptop after running the Windows restore
with a bit of work.
The HP laptop that was too slow did OK in casual store browsing.
However, once Steph started trying to do some real work on the laptop,
the screen scrolling was just too slow. I assume that could have been
fixed within a few weeks, but she did not want to wait.
For me, the main
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
If you buy a Dell, I *strongly* recommend the Gold Tech Support
package ...
If you buy Gold Tech Support, what do you get if you buy a laptop with
Windows installed and install another OS,, like Fedora or Ubuntu.
I've
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:
The HP laptop that was too slow did OK in casual store browsing.
However, once Steph started trying to do some real work on the laptop,
the screen scrolling was just too slow.
That's almost certainly due to video drivers
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is to is to open up the
iso, copy in the
On 2009-01-22 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could
install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Excellent point. Somebody could do custom spin in Fedora-land with
revisor, or... heck, I
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:20 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:02 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway?
Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost.
The Vista laptop allows for some lower cost options that are not
available
On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ord...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/30/08, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Rochetedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable
connector pretty cheap ///
Not an enclosure but I've heard
Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ord...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/30/08, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Rochetedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable
connector pretty cheap
On 12/31/2008 02:41 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ord...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/30/08, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Rochetedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
The folks at
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB
enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery
I'm trying to take care of?
-Neil
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On 12/30/2008 12:00 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB
enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery
I'm trying to take care of?
I bought 1 for $5 at MicroCenter for a 2.5in drive and $7
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB
enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery
I'm trying to take care of?
I just found this over at slickdeals:
http://www.eforcity.com/pothsata2501.html
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 15:45, Mark Komarinski wrote:
I just found this over at slickdeals:
http://www.eforcity.com/pothsata2501.html?efwebwkspban081230=pothsata2501
-Mark
That is a good deal, but I'm not looking for a SATA one. That said, I've
gotten good response so far and should
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB
enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery
I'm trying to take care of?
-Neil
The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable
connector pretty cheap
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable
connector pretty cheap ///
I got one of those, it's pretty neat. 40-pin and 44-pin (laptop)
parallel plugs molded right into the ends of it, plus a SATA
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