Posts by drizek

it should be fine. Your laptop doesnt use up a lot of power anyway.

you know that little place on your laptop where the centrino sticker is? Rip the sticker off and use it as a mouse pad. Then play Civ 4.

ya, i plan on testing the hdd from my 9300 on here, but dell puts some crappy SCSI converters on them and every time ive had to take it off i ended up bending the pins. I dont want to do any lasting damage to my hdd on the 9300, so i...

no ****ing way. this thing works great. The only problem is the hdd is really loud(which means its going to die soon anyway). It weighs 3 pounds, is one inch thick and smaller than an A4 paper. Once i get a new battery it should last...

try the dell latitude d620. It weighs less than 4.5 pounds, and has a 1440x900 14" screen, which is a higher resolution than both your compaq and your desktop lcd. Edit: ^ his post is referring to the same lcd. the difference...

I have a 7 year old thinkpad 240 with a DMA 4 HDD(33.3mB/s) with 512kb cache and i want to get a larger, faster, quieter hdd. According to seagates website, DMA 5(66mb) was finalized in 1999 and DMA 6(100,b) was done in 2000 which...

im looking more at e16 because i need the stability, but i want to wait till my ram arrives to see if KDE improves with that. Right now its sluggish even with openbox. It makes sense because every time i open a new program, it would have...

Someone in another forum recommended a thinkpad 240 off of ebay to me and i bought one It runs kubuntu decently, but i had to get a ram upgrade(new ram should be here tomorrow) cause 64mb just wasnt cutting it. I also bought a wifi...

OK, I have top post. I just bought a thinkpad 240 off of ebay(7 years old now) and other than a few scratches on the case, it is working 100%. I have it sitting next to my 9300 right now and it is running Kubuntu dapper and playing...

im not sure about the games. As for firefox, you have to extract the file somewhere. Then, depending on the one you downloaded, you will either just click the firefox icon in hte extracted folder to run it or follow the instructions to...