On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, B. Bogart wrote:
Too bad my AMD64 & Duron machines are.... Desktops!!!! (not little ones at that). I can't transport such large heavy things all the way from Canada. If I had a linux laptop I would bring that. I don't own such a thing.
Then do what they do in Catalonia:
http://artengine.ca/matju/guckes/2004-09-28/dscn7846.jpg
But I was told by one of the guys that they had a few problems with trying to convince authorities that this is just a puter and not a bomb.
That's especially neat because it's essentially a desktop computer so it has a few things one may miss with a laptop. Sure, on a regular laptop, one can use an external mouse, keyboard, monitor -- and even the IDE drives if you buy an adaptor at 35,- Euro ! But what one might miss the most is the PCI ports.
It's a bit sad that laptop manufacturers really want us to buy laptop-specific hardware at a premium price, else it would cost only a few Euros to take a laptop's internal PCI bus and extend it outside the laptop. I have a few BT878 cards that currently I can't use.
Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada