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.<div>
<br></div><div>Good luck and your welcome, of course</div><div>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:10 AM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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>
<br>
Thanks again<br>
<br>
Brian<div><div class="h5"><br>
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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 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 href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></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 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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