Hardware vent...

[Tom Buskey]

"Hewitt Tech" said:
properly. Anybody had good experiences with their laptops? I'm looking for
>reliability and the ability to run Linux without ridiculous efforts. Also,

My 1st laptop was a toshiba Portege 660CDT (a P150).  I was very happy 
with it until it died :-(  I bought another Toshiba - Satellite 
1805-s204, 1GHz Celeron.  I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on it w/ an Adtron 802.11b card.  
USB (1.0?), Ethernet, DVD, sound all work well.  I have 1024x768x24bits 
on the screen.  I'd love to have more :-)  Hey, it was under $1k a year 
ago.

It's got a winmodem that I haven't gotten working (I have a pcmcia
modem) and IrDA that I haven't played with.  Toshiba does IrDA
differently so you have to load the toshboe module I guess.  One thing 
I really wish it had was a stereo sound in; I record my old vinyl to 
make CDs.  It's just a mono input *sigh* so I have to use another 
machine.

>I'd really like to have USB 2.0 compliant ports on the thing...
Not on this one.


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Tom Buskey