Posts by dropadrop

Has anyone heard of somebody popping a low voltage (35W) A64 into a notebook that previously had a mobile (61W) processor or vice versa? I'm intrested in how much my batterlife would go up with the change?

Quote: Originally Posted by nark It takes a lot of time to write 64 bit apps and 32 bit apps This is not really true. Depending on the app it might directly compile to 64bit without any changes. Some programs...

Does anyone know if a notebooks bios chip is similar to a desktops? I'm thinking I could try that bios on the page, but would like to be able to prom the bios with a hardware prommer incase it does'nt sit well with the notebook... I...

Hey! I have a Targa Visionary 811 notebook based on the Arima W730-K8 like some of the e-machines. I would need to update the bios to get rid of the acpi-problems I have under linux, but Targa won't issue any updates. I've noticed...

Anyone have a Burton backpack for notebooks? I was browsing around their site, and seems almost all of them have a separate compartment for a notebook. They don't really meantion the size though, and shops round here don't have any in...

I quite like gentoo and even though I don't have the emachines, I have a laptop based on the same Arima barebones. (should be similar) To boot I used the following kernel parameters: pci=noacpi noapic nopcmcia There is also issues...

I bought the laptop and have been very pleased with it. I might write a longer "review" a bit later, but here's a fast lowdown. It has two years onsite warrenty. (they pick it up if there's a problem) Don't know about phone...

Acer seem like they can't really decide if they want to make a budget solution or something more high end. They use 2*256mb for the ram configuration and a slow hardisk without any chance to upgrade on their part. This means that if you...

Yes, I still have my webserver running on a celeron 300A overclocked to 450 and it's been running rock stable for two years... (passivly cooled) The thing that has done the worst for celerons is the pentium 4 based models, that are...

It's lacking most of the powersaving features of the pentium m.