On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:45:00PM -0800, Heather wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:39:19PM -0800, Heather wrote: > > > Vendors right off the top of my head: Ascentia (sp?), Imperial, > > > Kachinatech > > > (but the model they sell is far slower than you want), Dell if you twist > > > their arm, ARM Computer. I'm sure there are a few more, maybe I'll bother > > > to look at the hardware howto and narrow it down sometime. > > > > Apple makes laptops that run debian-powerpc quite nicely, but are pretty > > pricey :( Good battery life and no noisy power-sucking fans though. > > > > Ascentia was a line of laptops made by AST. AST is out of business now. > > Good thing, too, according to this tremendously pissed off customer: > > http://www.netppl.fi/~findians/paper.html > > The Ascentias are still listed in LAPTOP magazine's chart this last month. > Unless someone else took up the product line, this company failure was recent?
Hmm, I guess they must still be around. I thought I read that somewhere, but I guess I must have mis-remembered. Maybe it was just one product line that they stopped making. Also, the fact that AST sends you off to http://ast.com/Quick_Support_Guide.htm for support gave the impression that they weren't up to much anymore. Anyway, I guess they're still around, since the page says: NOTE: Prior to February 1999, all AST brand products were manufactured and sold by AST Research, Inc., which is now providing support under the business name ARI Service (www.ari-service.com). After January 1999, all AST brand products were manufactured and sold by AST Computers, LLC, which provides support under the business name AST (www.ast.com). Maybe they just made a big change (and hopefully got rid of the crap described http://www.netppl.fi/~findians/paper.html!). Well, I don't know what's really going on, so I'll stop rambling now. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
