eQuoting Mike Phillips on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:52:30PM -0500: > I had a PCG-Z505S and the only thing that I didn't get working was the > WinModem, but then I had high speed connection everywhere anyway so I > never bothered trying. The 12" screen is a delight to work with, X > configures up no trouble at all. Sound is well supported now. USB may > well take some effort, but I did get it working. > > The only complaint was the battery life, on the standard battery you > could may get 1.5 hours out of it is you're lucky. I don't know about > the 3x battery and I didn't have one. > > Only had CD not DVD so can't comment. > > Trick to installing from cd-rom, when the kernel boots append: > ide2=0x180 to the lilo boot line and the cd is available as a regular > ide device, doesn't even need pcmcia support to access it. > > This machine was great when I had both the laptop and a desktop machine, > but now I'm done to one machine only I found the Sony not quite upto the > task of day to day heavy development machine and went for a full size > laptop instead (Dell Latitude CPx) which is a great machine you just > have to live with the weight. > > Mike > > Thats true. The new dell laptops seem to strike a balance between light weight and heavy duty processor/memory and screen. The one I spec'ed out was a C600 I believe. Pentium III 700, 512mb memory, ATI Video card I believe, and 20g hard disk drive. This is in what dell calls a reasonable lite laptop. I think it comes in a bit heavier than my Ls but is still a lot lighter than the Cpx or the monster 7500.
A friend that works at Dell told me that the C600 runs Linux like a champ. I don't believe its being offered yet as a preloaded Linux solution. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------
