Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: same as M10 only with the bigger higher res screen (and upgrade to nVidia graphics instead of Intel 3100 which is very slow on non-Windows OS. I haven't tried the Intel 3100 chipset, but I do know that all of the nvidia graphics chipsets I have tried with OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-13 Thread andrew
I was surprised how slow the 3100 is even under windows - full scren video playback show noticable tearing. Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
Which Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop are you talking about? The Portege or the Tecra M10? If you go to this link: http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/ You'll see that the Portege has the tiny 12.1 screen, while the Tecra M10 has a massive 14.1 Widescreen AND it's less expensive than the

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-12 Thread andrew
Which Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop are you talking about? The Portege or the Tecra M10? If you go to this link: http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/ You'll see that the Portege has the tiny 12.1 screen, while the Tecra M10 has a massive 14.1 Widescreen AND it's less expensive than

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
same as M10 only with the bigger higher res screen (and upgrade to nVidia graphics instead of Intel 3100 which is very slow on non-Windows OS. I haven't tried the Intel 3100 chipset, but I do know that all of the nvidia graphics chipsets I have tried with OpenSolaris (such as the nvidia

[osol-discuss] Toshiba Laptop in UK

2009-06-11 Thread andrew
The Toshiba laptops available in the UK have that have OpenSolaris pre-installed have quite small screens. I can recommend the Tecra A9 for use with OpenSolaris as well. It seems to share most of the platform specific elements like keyboard FN key and volume control with the M10 so everything