laptops

[awesome-dave1 at juno.com]

Hello,
	How much did this laptop cost? And what kind of screen does it have?
Thanks.
Dave.


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:28:38 -0500 Jacob Schmude <> writes:
> Hi
>      Well I'll try to give as much info as I can. I've got a toshiba 
> satellite pro 4340 laptop computer. It's a good system as far as 
> hardware and performance goes. Intel pentium III 650MHz processor 
> with 64mb ram. It has a 12GB hard disk. All hardware, even the 
> winmodem, is linux compatible. It has a built-in floppy and DVD-rom 
> disk. The sound system works fine with the ALSA drivers, it's a 
> yamaha YMF744 chip. It's multi-channel, too. There are two type II 
> pcmcia card slots. It has a serial port, a parellel port, an IRDA 
> port, and a USB port. I've got slackware linux running on it right 
> now. The modem, a lucent LT winmodem, works well with kernels 2.2 
> and 2.4 with the lucent driver. In full power mode it gives about 3 
> hours continuous battery life. However, there's no reason to unload 
> their windows that comes with this machine. It's win 98SE and all 
> the drivers are prop[erly set up for you. You just need to get rid 
> of the desktop wallpaper and theme and any windows screen reading 
> program will work fine. I just used fips to split the windows 
> partition and installed linux on the rest of the drive. Speakup on 
> this system works well! The num-pad, as in most laptops, is used by 
> depressing the FN key and then the keys on the right side of the 
> keyboard. Even the insert-key combinations are no problem really, 
> but you need to be a bit dextrous to handle some of them. The only 
> complaint I have about this laptop is that there's only one control 
> key on the left side of the keyboard. It would have been nice to 
> have another control key on the right side, but oh well.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Brian Moore wrote:
> > Greetings all.  Okay, finally am breaking down and hunting for a 
> laptop
> > computer .  I want to use this machine to boot both linux and 
> windows.  I
> > suspect windows will have no real problems since I will probably 
> get a
> > machine with it loaded whether or not I want their windows.  
> However, I have
> > had bad experiences with other machines in the past which required 
> lots of
> > drivers and would only work with the OF.a.m version of windows 
> from that
> > particular laptop company.  would like to avoid this if at all 
> possible
> > since I will probably nuke the disk as the first thing and put a 
> standard
> > version of win98 se and create a Linux partition running slackware 
> or redhat
> > or something like that.  would like as little strange hardware as 
> possible.
> > I really like like the keyboards on the thinkpad computers but 
> they are
> > pretty costly and i.b.m sometimes has strange hardware 
> configurations at
> > least on the desktop machines I have worked with.  Would be most 
> interested
> > in people's experience with notebook computers.  I don't mind 
> spending a
> > little more money for a good machine but really want to avoid 
> proprietary
> > software and sound video chips etc.  any thoughts viaprivate mail 
> would be
> > much appreciated.
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