Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:05:44 +0800
From: Viboon Chaojirapant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: L70 RAM and OS question
Hi Everyone,
Thank you so much for replying to my email. Especially
Bill, Neil and Christian. Now I am more confident about
the Libretto :).
>From your replies and through some Net surfing,
I think this will be the decision for now:
1. For Win98, this should be what I plan:
a. Win98 Lite for its size and speed
b. TextPad for text and coding
c. The Bat! for email
d. FreeAgent for news
e. Navigator or Opera for surfing
f. Palm Desktop for PIM and Palm synchronization
g. Office 97 even though I really would like
to avoid
h. Various Toshiba Libretto utilities and drivers
I think the above setup should cover 90% of
all my home/mobile computing needs.
2. If I were to install Linux, I think I will
go with Mandrake 7.0 since I have that as
my home desktop (and Christian managed to
install into L50). Perhaps I will use one of
the lighter window managers like Window Maker
or Sawmill and avoid KDE/Gnome. However,
I am still worried about making the IR/Sound/
APM features work. Also, I will lose the Toshiba
utilities.
That's it for now, thanks for all the help. I will
try to post the outcome of the above configurations.
Thanks!
> -----Original Message Begins-----
>
> From: Viboon Chaojirapant [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 11:00 AM
> To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
> Subject: L70 RAM and OS question
>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:13:28 +0800
> From: Viboon Chaojirapant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: L70 RAM and OS question
> Hi All,
> I will be obtaining a used Libretto 70 from a friend.
> This will be my first notebook computer, so I am
> really excited about it. New ones are priced beyond
> my reach :(.
> Anyway, I have 3 questions:
> 1. Can the L70 RAM go above 32MB? I know it says in
> the spec that 32MB is the maximum. But what is
> the restriction here? BIOS? I really want to have
> at least 64MB, because of bloated OSs.
> 2. Is the L70, with 120MHz CPU and 32MB RAM and 1.6GB HD,
> capable of running Win98SE and MS Office 97? Anyone
> tried this before?
> 3. If I were to install Linux instead, do you think
> that Mandrake 7.1 would run on it? I have Mandrake 7.0
> on my desktop, but I am not sure whether the same
> configuration can be used for notebook computers.
> Thank you for your input.
>
> -----Original Messsage Ends-----
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Cheers,
Viboon
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