Posts by wbeck

Yeah, double check to make sure that is your laptop. Is your ram in there? Maybe he or a friend of his had a 9300 that he beat on and wanted one in better shape. I wouldnt be surprised if the whole deal was a scam to get a cheap...

That which you speak of is the np8790. A very powerful laptop still, though outdated, since PCI-Express has arrived. 17 in wsxga+, P4 3.2 EE, 2 gig ddr400 dual channel, dual harddrives, Mobile Radeon 9700 256 meg. Great laptop. and...

Hey you all, here is some interesting info about the Ubuntu Laptop project That seems pretty sweet! To ensure that Ubuntu has the best laptop support, bar none, the Breezy (The up and coming release of Ubuntu scheduled for October)...

the "beauty" of gentoo is emerge. Where in a debian derivative, when you install a program, you have to install all of it's dependencies. With emerge, when you install a program through portage, you download the sources and...

You will not notice a difference in speed between a 1.6 and 1.8 ghz Pentium M processor when just using Windows. The difference you would see would be in the rendering time or compression time of your videos. Where a 1.6 ghz proc may...

I wonder if I were to pick up an indian accent and a fake name....

Holy cow. 621/320!?!? And it didnt fry? I have been to scared to go over 500/280! And your gfx card is fine? Like no artifacts? Wow, that is incredible. I am really impressed? Airconditioning? Huge fans? I have a friend who once hooked...

I have tried Suse 9.1, 9.2, Mandrake 10, 10.1 Community, VLOS 1.1 x86_64, gentoo 2004, yoper v1, v2(beta), FC3, Knoppix 3.7(i installed to HD), Mepis 3.3, Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary). I think that's it. I think, though there are probably a few...

I dont think that i would like to have one of those current x2s in my laptop. My np4750 with the athlon64 dtr chip draws like 82 (i think) watts at max power. 100 is a stinkin lot. This thing does get mighty hot. i bet the fans would be...

so far, there is not a laptop that could hold more than 4 gig of ram. Though the Sager np9680 has four sodimm slots, i think i heard somewhere that it is limited, by the motherboard or something to 2 or 3 gigs. But seriously, unless...