Toshiba laptop

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi Ken,

I know I'm coming in late to the discussion. Hope you haven't bought the 
laptop yet. See below.
Ken Moffat wrote:

>Celeron M 1.4ghz
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I'm running a Celeron 1.6GHz Thinkpad, and it is a little slow and runs 
hot. I had to bump up the RAM to 512MB to run FC4+XFCE4. KDE and Gnome 
were too heavy for it running 128MB RAM. It was much worse when running 
the 2.4 versions of the kernel, but with the 2.6.x versions, performance 
is ok.

>Atheros 802.11b/g/wireless
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This is the real problem. Putting aside all the GNU politics, I had a 
Atheros card that was just annoying. MadWIFI works with it, but 
everytime you upgrade your kernel you have to re-compile the drivers. If 
you are dependent on RPM packages and do "yum" or apt-get updates, you 
would want to re-compile the drivers. Why I say that is: I believe RPM 
packages of MadWIFI are provided by the DAG repository, but the updates 
lag behind the kernel updates, sometimes by hours, sometimes days, so 
you may be in situations where you have an updated kernel with suddenly 
no network access. If you're using yum to update your kernel, this can 
be really annoying.

Also USD$500 is really too much to be paying for this old laptop. 

Regards,
pascal chong