new toy

[redbird]

The letter carrier just delivered two large, friendly boxes from webbob, with a laptop and assorted accoutrements inside. I think this means I can write at the library, write in the park, write at alt.polycon. Write and edit. This should increase my flexibility, versatility, all that good stuff.

Thank you, Bob!

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[webbob.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. Each of those batteries ran the laptop in full power mode for about 2.5 hours when I tested them a couple of seeks ago (you should check the way the power management is set up for battery use, it might still be set to high power, don't sleep).

The Thinkpad 560 with one battery weighs less than my TiBook, so its portability is pretty good. It's a Pentium 133, has its maximum configurable RAM (40 MB) and a 4 GB hard drive. It's partitioned for the installed Windows 98 (if prompted for the Windows CD, use C:\win98) with some space for lighter-weight OSes if desired.

Please don't convert the C: drive filesystem to FAT32, or the hibernation feature (stores a RAM image to disk and resumes from it on restart) will stop working.

If you use the laptop at home with the Ethernet card and travelling with the modem card, you will probably need to turn off (with the System Tray control) the Ethernet card before dial-up networking works completely.

[avram]

Cool! I think my TiBook needs to get out of the apartment more often. Last time was, I think, 9/11, when I brought along it to P&TNH's place so I could make use of their connectivity when Panix's dialup was out.

If I could rely on wireless net connectivity I'd ferry it around more often. Time to look at that map of wireless nodes again -- I think it's at nycwireless.