Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:23:38 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 70CT verses 100CT
> > I went from an L50 to an L100 and I'm very happy with it ... it IS bigger > > than the L50/70 and it does have some quirks in terms of > > hibernation/suspend but its more than made up for by its extra features. > >What quirks have you found? IIRC I posted a few gripes a while back but it boils down to 1: It has a real problem hot-docking/undocking or warm-docking/undocking from the EPR regardless of what else is plugged in. My L50 was fine going to and from the EPR primarily because the EPR wasn't actually detecting as a port replicator (for instance, even when nothing is connected you'll notice the L50/70 recons its got 2 PCMCIA slots ... as if the EPR was always connected). I think this sorta problem would be common to ANY laptop that uses Windows's docking/undocking stuff (my Toshiba Tecra 500CDT with the Dockstation V has similar problems at times). 2: The L100 has a real hard time figuring out itself after coming out of suspend. My L50 would redetect everything so say it suspend with a NIC then I replaced it with a CD-ROM card and powered it back up again, it'd redetect everything and it'd be fine. With my L100, I have to stop the NIC before suspending, then when it comes out of suspend it detects the CD-ROM card. Ditto if I remove the NIC during hibernation (although I think thats more a network problem). I just get into the habit now of stopping all devices before suspending, regardless of if I'll be removing anything or not. 3: Coming OUT of suspend takes anywhere from 2 seconds to 15 seconds. I'm not exactly sure why this is ... it doesn't seem to depend on things having changed, redetections, programs running or whatnot. 4: I can't get the L100 to do the nice L50 thing of suspending but saving hibernation info, then flipping from suspend to hibernate after a set amount of time (so if I remove the battery pack or if I leave it for a while it won't need to be powered but if I need to wake it up after a short time I can do so quickly). Having said THAT, it seems to use about as much power suspended as hibernated so the only time you'll really need to hibernate is if you wanted to switch battery packs without fully shutting down. I've not got a spare pack for my L100 so I've not had that problem, when I get a new pack I'll have to find a way of forcing hibernation to do a battery swap ... 5: The L100 relies a lot more on Windows APM stuff so it does annoying things like Windows overriding BIOS. In Windows for instance, I press the power button and the laptop suspends. Under DOS or Linux however, I press the power button and it hibernates. Thing is, I've not told it to hibernate ANYWHERE (BIOS or Windows) so I'm trying to figure out why it bothers hibernating. Hope this helps! - Raymond P.S. I'm running a bit behind on the list, apologies if I'm answering questions that have already been answered! --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "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://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
