[SunRescue] Re: OT Soyo subnotebooks

[bobk]

If you don't mind an older, slower system, there was a place selling many
used HP omnibook 800cs systems on ebay for $150. That's a very small,
nice, 100 mhz pentium, 16 mb ram, 810mb hd, built in sound, pcmcia. I have
its bigger brother, the 800ct, with 133 mhz, 4gb, 80mb. Running linux on
it is well documented (everything works except irda, and I don't care
about that). Also, its got built in scsi.

I bought a compaq armada m300, 333 mhz, 128mb, 4gb drive. Its nice enough
to use but battery life isn't good at all, and I've had problems with
it. This thing seldom leaves the desktop, but the screen crapped out in
the first week, and now the battery has died, after only 5 months. I am
happy I got the extended warrantee on it! Because of these problems, I
can't really recommend it. I got it for $1069 though (solutions4sure.com)

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Reagen Ward wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:00:30PM -0500, mike dombrowski wrote:
> 
> > It's got usb, parallel, serial, ir, sound in, out and mic, floppy port, 
> > vga out and a type 2 slot, all builtin. User replacable drive, remove 4 
> > screws and it slides out.10.25" wide, 8" deep and like 1" high. 800x600 
> > active matrix, 24bit with different outputs for the vga out. Some neat 
> > metal on top of the case, great spring on the display. Very nice 
> > keyboard, no useless caps lock or windows keys, real T for the arrows. 
> 
> Wow, it does sound nice.  I found one from a rather iffy supplier for
> under $1k, most other dealers have 'em for $1300 or so.  The big
> question is:  Can it display to an external monitor while running Linux?
> My NEC cannot (unless I fire up VMWare in full screen running Win98),
> and it's quite annoying.  As a result, I tend to print out my presentation
> slides and use an overhead.
> 
> Reagen
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