Posts by Tyranous

Unless I have misread it there is only one smart bay, so you have a floppy, an optical drive, and one "smart" bay that can have an additional hard drive, optical drive, or battery.

That's what I was wondering, I've got an 8886 on the way and I'd love one of these things if it'll fit.

An associate of mine at work recently built a custom laptop. Now I use the term laptop loosely. He's one of those people who actually understand ALL the internal workings of his computer. He wanted portability but wasn't willing to...

Sounds like your batter has gone dead.....I don't know if you've read the other posts about power cycling them...The idea is that you are supposed to run the battery down completely then recharge it at least every few months (more...

Yeah, my laptop should be arriving soon and I'm going to be hooking it up to my home theatre system (and my 5.1 computer speakers) so I really hope it works better than most onboard sound cards I've used. I'm been thinking about getting...

Maybe the electrical god will correct me, but I thought the primary reason for not using DC current in homes was the resistance that would build up on the lines? (I'm sure safety *might* have come up later, but really, how many times in...

Which benchmarks are you guys using most of the time and where can I get them?

If you haven't already sold it I have a friend who might be interested in it. I don't think he's looking to spend anymore than $1500 though, not sure what you were hoping for.

I just ordered my 8886! I went with the 2.4GHz but I figure that's still something like 6x speed improvement over my Pentium II 400MHz desktop! I've had that thing for about 4.5 years now so I'm actually impressed that it still works...

I'm sure you've already thought of this (I think static discharge would be the least of your problems) but most countries other than the US use a different voltage and alternating rate for AC power. I would think that if this was the...