Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:20:49 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] XP, Bigger dirve, Increased processing. etc.
see my site below for more links and info. > 1. My 110CT is running Win98. Will I see any improvment or > degredation with XP? Yep. Dog-slow performance with XP. 98 gobbles up about 1/2 of 64MB RAM for me just to startup and load a few icons in the toolbar. xp will gobble up all available RAM, and you'd have to swap everything to the HD just to run one program. Not very efficient or nice at all. XP is based on 2000 which is just another in the line of WinNT OSs - all of them gobble up resources like crazy, and will make the poor 233Mhz CPU of the L110 work overtime. My recommend? Avoid and run Win95 or Win98SE instead. > 2. How can I put a larger drive (currently 2GB?) in my 110CT? visit ebay.com buy new, larger HD eg. Hitachi HD 20GB for only $75 for me. was it hrmla.com? (see other post today to this group for more info and address) All compatible 9.5mm or thinner HDs are listed on my site. You can use any. If you don't use Win2K/XP or Linux, you'll also need to use a disk manager progrma to access >8.4GB on the larger HDs - BIOS limitation of the Libretto. If you buy an IBM HD, you can use their free Disk Manager program www.storage.ibm.com; otherwise, simply download Western Digital EZ-Drive 9.09W which installs EZ-BIOS 9.06 onto any >8.4GB HD, and lets the L110 see the full capacity of the HD. (this works for me on my Hitachi) You'll need to avoid the ~1010-1040 cylinder areas on your HD when partitioning (thus you'll have at least 2 partitions to use the entire HD capacity) due to the need to leave the 8.4GB boundary free for the Libretto hardware hibernate to disk info stored there. simply remove two screws on bottom of libretto, remove HD cover, pull out HD, remove handle and screws from old HD, put on new HD, reverse process. about 2 minutes max to finish. > 3. Is there away to speed up processing without burning up the boards? See overclocking section on my site below. You can go from 233Mhz to 266Mhz, but that isn't worth the trouble on the L110. On a L100, yes, and about 90% successful based on over 20+ people doing the overclock, but way too much hassle to take the l110 completely apart just to go another 33mhz faster. in japan, they have companies which will overclock for you, and even desolider the CPU and drop in a faster one. > I love this little PC and do not want to (and cannot) find another > unit of this size and versitility. Actually, there is the Libretto ff1100 which runs at the same speed (or faster depending on model release), and has in addition a built-in digital camera and smart media slot! External, detachable remote control/headphones for MP3 playback, too. Released two generations after the L110, discontinued last year, but still avail. in Japan here and there. About the same size as well. Also, one generation after the L110 came the SS1010 model. Same 233Mhz, and general specs - same size as L50/70 models but only 25mm thick closed (vs. 34mm). A bit bigger (which isn't really the same anymore), I'd only recommend the Fujitsu P-Series (LOOX) for $1499 in the USA. Built-in wide-screen, 800Mhz processor, DVD/CD-RW drive, and about 2.8lbs. Not as light or small as the 2lbs L110, but figuring all that that's been added, well worth the difference. I personally wouldn't even look at the latest Librettos in comparison, the L1/L2/L3 models, because they're the same price, but don't even have a built-in DVD/CD-RW drive, which I personally find very, very enticing. I'd look once at the Sony C1 series, but then drop them for the Fujitsu instead -- I'd rather have the built-in DVD/CD-RW than a so-so built-in digital camera and no drives built-in. Also, the Sony's are more expensive than the Fujitsu's. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
