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Can Laptops Get Any Cheaper?
05.Oct.07 | 5 Comments
My father-in-law has been using an old laptop of mine for the last 4 years. He’s a saint, that old man… We’re talking Toshiba Tecra 8000 sporting a Pentium 2 233MHZ, 256MB RAM running Windows 2000.
It actually doesn’t run all that bad, but the display has been starting to dim and, more importantly, some of [...]
Another Option for the Old Machine
02.Sep.07 | 5 Comments
Long time readers here have seen more than one article about my quest to to breath life into an old Thinkpad 600E laptop that I have. It is a Pentium 2 with 288MB ram and a 6GB disk — and I think it still has a fair amount of life in it. I [...]
Vista Adventures
16.Aug.07 | 8 Comments
On a whim, I decided to install Vista Business on my laptop today. A month ago, I tried (and failed) to get Ubuntu on this machine. Today it was time for something different.
The Vista install is amazingly easier and faster than XP’s, isn’t it? I was pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately, my Toshiba Tecra A4 [...]
No Ubuntu Today
24.Apr.07 | 3 Comments
I noticed that the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release of Ubuntu was recently announced. My work laptop has been giving me some grief lately so on a whim I grabbed the ISO, booted from it and installed Ubuntu.
The laptop is a two year old Toshiba Tecra, running the 1.60GHz Pentium M and Centrino chipset. [...]
