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February 26, 2005
New Notebook
Yesterday, during the last day of class, my notebook kept hard locking on me, over and over again. With a trip coming up next week, the prospect of fighting my through this new problem did not look very appealing.
After a little discussion, Dax and I struck a deal in which I have purchased his "old" notebook, a Dell Inspiron 4150 (1.9GHz Pentium4; 1GB RAM; Radeon Mobility 7500 video; 1400x1050 LCD; 80GB Hard Drive; MiniPCI wireless NIC).
After spending time installing Fedora Core 3 on here, I am now using the "new" notebook, which I have named corsair.
Installation went fairly smothly. I dropped out of Anaconda to a shell early in the installation process and created a 20GB partition at the end of the drive for WindowsXP Professional (which I will be installing later today). I want to be able to dual-boot to Linux & Windows.
I do almost everything in Linux, except for a couple of games that I like to play which I have been unable to get running under Linux, yet. I think that a notebook with great graphics makes for the ultimate gaming system, since I like to get together with friends and play. I will also be taking a couple of games with me while traveling.
This notebook is a step up from the HP Pavilion ze1210 (1.2GHz Athlon XP; 1GB RAM; Twister_K video; 1024x768 LCD; 60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive). After 2 or 3 weeks go by, once I am certain that I am not missing any data that I need from wraith (the HP notebook), then I will clean up wraith and set it up for Charlotte (my wife, in case you did not know that).
I am quite happy with this purchase. However, I expect that I will probably need to have the batteries rebuilt by the end of 2005. I believe that this system will be quite satisfactory for another year. At that point, I believe I will be looking to purchase an Athlon64 notebook or perhaps an Apple PowerBook.
Posted by lamontp at February 26, 2005 2:54 PM
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