Mark,
I hope you never need warrant work on a Toshiba--unless they have changed
dramatically, the tech support from Toshiba America is among the worst.
I now use an ASUS ultra-portable. It has a very nice keyboard, although I
mostly use a full-size wireless keyboard and mouse here at home. Those are from
Logitech and are pretty good. If I had had the room, I'd have bought a new
Happy Hacker Keyboard Lite 2--but I was so full for the trip back here that I
had no more room at all in my checked suitcase, my carry-on or my laptop
messenger bag this trip. (I live in Ukraine, and such things are hard to get or
very expensive over here).
That said, you might put on a keyboard you like for use at home, and only deal
with the laptop keyboard when you are away from home.
This machine came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit; it has no trouble dual
booting with Grub 2 into Linux or back into Windows. Windows has never liked
working with another OS if you load Windows after the other--in that case, you
have to reload Grub at the very least.
There is a method, IIRC, that you can use the Windows boot loader for multiple
OS instances--at least, there was with XP--but I have not done it in many years
and do not remember the particulars. Nor, in fact, whether this is still
possible with Win 7 as I haven't explored it.
David
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Darksyde" <m_alexande...@...> wrote:
>
> You had several good points there, Loyal. I do somewhat like the machine,
> though I don't care for the feel of the keyboard (I can type wildly on my
> 'shiba). Actually, Wallyworld has a Toshiba Satellite L675D for $578 and it
> looks pretty good. 17.3" display, 4 Gig RAM, 320 Gig SATA, but, alas, only 3
> USB's. I'm planning on getting a "Squid" from ThinkGeek anyway, a company
> with some of the coolest shit you don't really need but can't live without,
> FYI.
> Question: Is it my imagination or have I heard that Win 7 did not
> particularly like sharing with other OS's (as in a duel-boot)?
> Mark
>
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