I'm looking at getting a Tablet PC. Man, I take so many damn notes.. wouldn't it be nice to just put them directly into the PC? Plus, you can turn the screen so that you can plop down and read a big PDF or something like it's a book. I really like that idea.
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "worms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <General at brlug.net> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] some activity (bcm43xx drivers on a dell 600m) > Nice price. I used to have a 12" PowerBook. And while a 15" wide > screen notebook is a little big from a lugability stand point...I need > the screen realestate. > > --lance > > Mathew Branyon wrote: >> worms wrote: >> >>> They had the Inspiron 6000 for $650 which you got a Pentium M, 512mb, >>> WireLess and DVD burner >>> >>> >> That one was too big for me. I like the smaller laptops. This one had >> gig of ram, dvd burner, built in wireless of course, and 1 year warranty >> for $479. >> >> >> >> >>> On 3/9/06, *Mathew Branyon* < mbranyon at motion-labs.com >>> <mailto:mbranyon at motion-labs.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know if anyone else noticed, but dell just recently had an >>> insane deal on 600m laptops (I think they discontinued the line). >>> I >>> got one. I didn't have the foresight to pay the extra $30 to get >>> the >>> intel 2200 wireless minipci card. >>> >>> Shortening the story a bit, I have the dell wireless 1370, which >>> uses >>> the broadcom 4318 chipset. Ndiswrapper isn't working, and neither >>> are >>> the bcm43xx drivers (they are still experimental btw). >>> >>> So now, the question: >>> Did anyone else buy this laptop and manage to get it working? >>> >>> I figured instead of razing the internet, I could just ask you guys, >>> since you like to whine about it all :) >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> --Mat >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> General at brlug.net >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
