Dustin Puryear wrote: > 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" <worm402 at gmail.com> > 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 >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > I almost bought a tablet pc. A month ago there was a really good price on a toshiba tablet pc. From what I hear though, is that they don't have the hardware issues ironed out or something. I have no idea if this is true or not.
--mat
