Re: B5 laptop recommendations?

[Grendel <grendel@example.com>]

Jonathan wins. :)

Next to see if the rental company actually has it or not.

-grendel

P.S. Just realized that one could try running something like TCM with
wine or Vmware. Then a project came to mind that belongs in the same box
as Linux for wristwatches, TI calculators, and old Ciscos: Set up a
virtual machine with vmware, install linux inside of that, then install
vmware inside of that, then install linux inside of that...

Jonathan Q wrote:
> 
> ITSUMI ken-ichi (amt@example.com) wrote:
> 
> > # Toshiba has B5 Thiner windows box with Dsub 9pin serial port
> 
> What model is it?  When we were looking, the Stinkpad 240 was the
> only one we saw that met the Dsub-9 requirement.
> 
> The trouble with Toshiba notebooks is that Toshiba usually means
> "crappy pointing device."  I have a company Toshiba notebook
> at home for running TCM from there, and it has an "eraser in the
> keyboard" type pointing device similar to IBM's, but unlike IBM's,
> this one is a real PITA to use.  Poor precision, lousy tracking and
> balistics.  The one on our Stinkpad, by comparison, is a joy.  It's
> so good that it doesn't make me wish for a mouse.
> 
> But AFAIK all of the thinline Toshiba models have a trackpad, which
> of course translates into "evil and should be killed."
> 
> I also use an older Libretto, and it has a horrible pointing device,
> too.  The worst.  But we put up with it because of the small size
> and super portability, which is why we bought it.
> 
> Anyway, the Thinkpad 240 is almost as thin and light as the Toshiba,
> has a 12 GB disk and (with the expansion module) 192 meg of RAM.  The
> Toshiba models we saw all maxed out at 96 meg.  At the risk of
> sounding like an IBM commercial, if you're a network admin and need
> a notebook to take on the road, you probably won't find anything that
> can match the Thinkpad 240 (coming from someone who uses one for
> exactly that purpose).
> 
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