Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:26:43 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences...
>A few days ago I returned from a 2-month backpack-trip to Mexico and >Guatemala. In my luggage was a digital camera and a Libretto 100. It war >really a perfect combination! I could not imagine much other possibilities >to transport the 5000 pictures I have taken during the trip! Good on you! :-) The only thing I could think of that'd do a better job would be the Fujitsu Lifebook P series with the inbuilt CD burner but I don't like the chances of THAT surviving the fall you describe later ;-) >Low temperatures in the dessert, high humidty in the jungle, the Lib worked >on all conditions well. Ya Toshibas have a habit of being very hardwearing ... short of condensation or EMP it'd be pretty hard to stop a libby (unlike Acer laptops but I won't go there ;-) >On the Lib I had installed Win NT 4.0, all the Toshiba stuff and CardWizard >to allow hot swap of the memory cards for the camera. There was not one >crash, not one reboot during the whole trip! You mean you just suspended it each time instead of shutting it down? I am impressed! What exactly is CardWizard? AFAIK memory cards can be hot-swapped anyway (I hot-swap my SmartMedia cards all the time). >Thousands of kilometers the Lib was transported by plane, bus, boat and even >by donkeys without problems. But then there was ond bad accident: I >struggled and felt down, my backpack crashed hard to the concrete floor. >Even the Lib was in a bag inside, the case was heavily damaged. On the first >view I saw only a small crack on the case but inspecting the Lib closer >showed that the upper part with the display has moved 2 mm and the inner >chassis is bent, so that the Lib can't stand on a flat surface. 8-((( >But fortunately it ist only a mechanical damage, it continued to work! Hehe wow! Toshiba laptops can really take a beating! I've heard of laptops with bits of chassis sheared off and screens with cracks through the backs but which still work but a completely warped frame I've not heard before. >Of course I'm looking now for possibilities to repair the Lib, to have it >ready for the next trip! Well at work we had a Satellite 30CDT with a magnesium frame where the corner sheared off (as fate would have it, it was the lower left corner, the only one which has no electronics in it) and warped such that one of the connectors wouldn't fit anymore (it flew out of a backpack when the wearer came off his bicycle), we took all the electronics out, braced it against the workbench and pushed it back into shape, put the electronics back in, tweaked it so the connectors would fit, plugged it all in and its been fine since! It looks pretty ugly in one corner but it works fine! If you can stand the crack mark on the case you might want to try just bending it back into shape first before trying to find new cases for it ... on the other hand, if you're not confident you can get the PCB mount points aligned enough (leaving the screws slightly looser than normal may help) then perhaps a new case may be suitable ... I remember reading somewhere about how just a slightly oversized hard drive put enough pressure on a L50 motherboard to crack the solder joints on the memory chips ... >What I learned from this: I need a hard case for the Lib (+ AC-Adapter + >Cables + Charger for the Camera) which must be upholstered and strong enough >to withstand a free fall from at least 1m! Actually, the padding would probably be more important than the case being hard ... the libby has a fair amount of 'squashability' if its got enough padding to spread the force. I've fallen on my libby whilst it was wrapped in my jacket, the libby survived but the floppy diskette that was in the pocket of that jacket didn't ... We look forward to hearing more of the Adventures of Gerhard Kapusta and his Trusty Libretto! ;-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
