On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:42, Jon Biddell wrote: > Hmmm... I seem to remember reading a laptop review (PC Authority or APC) > that said that Pioneer's build quality was quastionable for the price.
Umm, I've got one. You get what you pay for (plus some in my judgement). The PIII is NOT a mobile PIII so you get very short battery life and a noisier than usual fan. On the upside, for just over $2K you get a beefed up very fast development/demo environment. Make sure where ever you go there is power! Linux: Loaded Mandrake 9.0, recognised everything except the winmodem off the bat. Got the winmodem working after some effort and lots of googling. Spec (Sep 2002 purchased) PIII 1.2Ghz, 512Mb, 20Gb, 14" TFT, sound, CD, LAN, WinModem, 2xUSB. Whats missing: PCMCIA. Do I miss it? No. My only issue is wifi but thats down the track. I can get a USB wifi gadget I guess. Oh, and yes, I did purchase with NO Windows installed. Yay. Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
