On 1999-08-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <John Oram> said:
>IMO if you can live with the lunchbox style configuration when
>looking for a used portable computer - take it. That way you can
>put many more of the desktop motherboards and cards inside that
>style of case. Also you can drop in a new motherboard and drive an
>external monitor...
This whole "PC card" concept has been quite new to my experience. I'm just
glad that my Toshiba Satellite's COM3 Noteworthy modem card works fine with
this system -- of course, it came with the notebook, so I couldn't go wrong.
:)
>IF you need a truly small device because of weight - limited info
>needs to be carried out of the office, I recommend looking at the
>tiny organizer (REX) or slave-master computer scenario with the
>Palm OS or Windows CE OS for the slave - which means your always
>tied to a desktop or larger mobile computer using the MS-Windows 9x
>or NT/2000 OS's. ...
The palmtops are too limited for my purposes, and I didn't want to depend on
Windows CE to run anything... My initial reason for buying a new notebook
was to get a complete install of Red Hat Linux without another desktop
(don't have room). Now I seem to be enjoying PC DOS 2000 so much that I've
made it my primary boot OS (thanks to PowerQuest's PartionMagic).
>Another real pain for used mobile computers is when their backlight
>bulb (Cold Cathode Fluorescent lamp) decides to wear out in their
>LCD display. The "bulbs" are no longer a stocking item from major
>distributors. They can be manufactured but you have to buy 250 at a
>time to get any price savings :(
My first computer, a Sharp 4500, has that type of backlit screen, and I've
been very cautious not to use it often. So far (at about 10 - 12 years),
it's still working almost like new.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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