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Well, my first computer was the high school's Wang with punch cards!
I dropped out of tech shortly thereafter and didn't get involved at
all until 1996 when the company I went to work for used Apples and I
had to learn a little bit to function at all. I still have so much
to learn and so little time.....<br>
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On 08/16/2012 10:16 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
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cite="mid:CAC0=j060_YJmNBxEpu8FbQrk=rBSy26+FpFfrvtzyQZ60MNdTg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>Rob<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:10 AM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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>
<br>
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 only'</div>
<div>MicroCenter <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.microcenter.com/"
target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/</a></div>
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<div>Good luck,</div>
<div>Rob Haag</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at
11:36 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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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href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081612&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081612-_-EMC-081612-Index-_-LaptopsNotebooks-_-34215371-L0A"
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Advice?<br>
<br>
Muchas gracias<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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