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Well now I visited Microcenter and found this!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0394868">http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0394868</a><br>
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opinions as to the same question; plug and play my existing or
cloned SATA drive in my AMD64 Toshiba? Also, are HPs any good?<br>
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On 08/16/2012 11:12 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
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cite="mid:CAC0=j06TOPCCrD9Ss8bvSSYXikW61bcAOJUUoxYuSkaP2-Ha9A@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Apple DiskII, that takes me back. I could not afford
one in the early days, but the library had a couple. I remember
carrying all my data on a couple floppies, less than 1mb :)
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<div>Rob<br>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <span
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Oh yeah, them were the good old days... back when this:
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<div>Was VERY high tech and replaced this:</div>
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<div>Makes me all warm and fuzzy just remembering it.</div>
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<div>Andy
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:16
AM, Rob Haag <span dir="ltr"><<a
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204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Not bad for first
hardware, I was just remembering recently how my
first computer had floppies (5.25"). My first hard
drive was 15mb (yep, that is Megabytes :) ). Now
I'm giving my age away, but I know older nerds :)
I'm quite surprised lately at how cheap hardware
is getting, I find (capable) laptops for under
$200. It makes it a bit easier to move onto new
hardware when they are so cheap, and recycling old
ones is responsible too... so we don't have to
milk every last drop of service from the old
units.
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<div>Good luck and your welcome, of course</div>
<div><span><font color="#888888">Rob</font></span>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17,
2012 at 12:10 AM, BrianO'Keefe <span
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Thanks so much Rob. I've cloned my HD
several times as larger cpacity ones
came on market and installed them into
this laptop and yes, SATA. I think
though that it's time to stop trying
to make this workhorse pull the loads
that newer OS versions and all the
software that I've installed amount
to. amazing to think my first computer
was a Mac G3 Desktop with a 4GB HD!!<br>
I'll check out micro center for sure.<br>
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Thanks again<br>
<br>
Brian
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On 08/16/2012 09:59 PM, Rob Haag
wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Does your
Toshiba have a SATA hard drive?
All the new ones do, surely this
unit at Newegg does too. But you
may also sacrifice
speed/reliability to swap it
out. I may suggest you take an
image of your old HDD with
GParted or even the 'dd'
command, then put that image on
the new hard drive, then grow
the new hard drive's partition
to utilize the extra space (if
the new on is bigger (in
capacity)... or partition whats
left over and mount that
partition too. It's not a
fantasy to swap hard drives
though, if you thinking 'will it
start up in the new hardware?'
Also, the new laptop you linked
to certainly supports
accelerated 3D graphics, which
sounds like a step up for you in
that department.
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<div>Just for the fun of it,
check out Micro Center. Not
every deal ships (some are 'in
store only'). I re-located to
Columbus, OH and we have Micro
Center here, my dad just
picked up a really nice Asus
laptop for $249 that supports
accelerated graphics, the RAM
is a bit lower than what you
found at Newegg, but could be
upgraded for $20-30 to 4gb. I
have had very good service
from Micro Center too, they
are very customer oriented.
It's worth a quick look, but
unfortunately most of the
'good' deals are 'in store
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<div>Good luck,</div>
<div>Rob Haag</div>
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Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36
PM, BrianO'Keefe <span
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff"
text="#000000"> Hey all,<br>
<br>
I have the Toshiba
satellite with an AMD 64
bit processor. One of my
main issues is that the
notebook doesn't have
the newer video
capability to run Ubuntu
beyond what I have,
which is 10.10 except in
crappy 2D mode (or
vintage or whatever they
call it).<br>
This Acer laptop <a
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target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081612&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081612-_-EMC-081612-Index-_-LaptopsNotebooks-_-34215371-L0A</a><br>
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is capable, I think, and
I'm wondering if I could
pop my HD from the
Toshiba into it and just
run with it. Or is that
a fantasy? The price is
great and it gets good
reviews.<br>
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Advice?<br>
<br>
Muchas gracias<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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