Comments on: Looking back, looking around, looking ahead http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rickard http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40820 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:38:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40820 I have been owner of both a X40 and a X61 which is my current machine. I must say that both is really nice. My only beef with the X40 is that it uses a 1.8″ hard drive which is a bit hard to replace. If i’m not remembering wrong the bios of the X40 has a white list over which 1.8″ drives that it likes which i think was due to some chip bug so it can’t handle all types of 1.8″ drives. The X60 – X61 uses normal 2.5″ drives, but are still quite expensive. Anyway, the X40 is the best laptop i ever owned, it’s damn small. I really like my current too though which is running ARCH.

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40818 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:37:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40818 You could always get a netbook that doesn’t have that stinkin’ Poulsbo chipset. Perhaps not the best CPU and graphics to date, but they can get great battery life. My Acer Aspire One a0751h gets at least the same performance as my 1GHz Pentium 3 machine does, and that’s with only the fbdev xorg driver. (Blame the Poulsbo chipset again.)

Of course, my netbook has the 1.33GHz Atom cpu rather than the standard 1.6GHz, so most netbooks probably have slightly better performance than mine.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40817 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:21:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40817 Well, I realized a few months ago that I was keeping the Inspiron around for its processing muscle (what little there was of that). That, coupled with a need to creep forward a little technologywise, and I started thinking that something circa 2003 might be a good idea.

And since Pentium 4s are now old and slow, it doesn’t feel like I would be moving out of the basement. :D

]]> By: MK http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40816 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:24:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40816 I am rather shocked too. 2.4Ghz and decent graphics!? Somehow, I must have assumed the trend was going the other way, P2 and next to no graphics. What happened?

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40809 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:09:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40809 Scary, isn’t it? :twisted:

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40807 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:42:22 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/looking-back-looking-around-looking-ahead/#comment-40807 Wow, K. Mandla looking for a modern computer?!? The sky is falling!!! :mrgreen:

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