Exercise in Amusement

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:06:02 -0700
Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> >Bill Campbell wrote:
> >>
> >>I used a ThinkPad 600 from Aug 1999 until early in 2007 when I got a
> >>Titanium Powerbook.  I ran all current versions of Caldera OpenLinux on the
> >>TP600, switching to SuSE 8.x Professional in 2002 or so, updating SuSE Pro
> >>through 9.2.  Later versions required more RAM (with kde) than was
> >>available.  SuSE 10.0 ran, but didn't recognize CardBus cards due to
> >>interrupt problems.
> >>
> >I haven't used a laptop since the crappy Conner HD on my Zenith 286 went 
> >south.  I've looked at laptops on and off, and slowly came to the 
> >conclusion that an IBM ThinkPad would probably be the best bet for me.
> 
> My ideal laptop would have the ThinkPad keyboard and eraser
> mouse, running OS X.
> 
> >I recently acquired a used titanium G4 Powerbook (640 MB @ 400 mHz).  
> >The previous owner used to own a Mac store until Apple squeezed out the 
> >independents.  He obligingly loaded WordPerfect 3.5e on it for me.  It 
> >has OS X 10.4.  I was originally going to install a PPC Linux, but for 
> >the moment I'm having fun using it as is.  My biggest annoyance is the 
> >mouse, which lacks a scroll wheel, and the yo-yo shaped wall wart just 
> >looks weird.  Other than that, the titanium cased Powerbook is what a 
> >laptop should be. 
> 
> FWIW, Apple hasn't totally squeezed out the indepents, at least
> not here in the Northwest.  ``The Mac Store'' (nee The Computer
> Store), http://www.macstore.com has its headquarters near
> Portland Oregon, with Oregon stores in Portland, Beaverton,
> Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene, and Washington stores in Seattle
> and Redmond.  At least, the one in Seattle is a fully authorized
> Apple service center.  I am not affiliated with them in any way,
> but tend to go there rather than Apple's stores as they offer
> products other than Apple's.
> 
> It took me a while to get to the point I can use the touchpad on
> the Powerbook without cussing, and feel reasonably comfortable
> with it.  I much prefer the ThinkPad keyboard/mouse.  Say what
> you will about IBM, they do know how to design a keyboard (the
> original IBM PC notwithstanding :-).
> 
> As for external mice, I'm using the Microsoft wireless laptop
> mouse with the Powerbook.  I would really prefer something like
> the Logitech 3-button mice without scroll wheel (I use the middle
> mouse button a lot, and clicking scroll wheels isn't quite the
> same).  This Microsoft and their Natural keyboards are the only
> products from Redmond that I will willingly pay for.
> 
> Bill
> --


I have the Acer Aspire 5100, I like it a lot, not the mouse pad systems.
I have installed a Logitec wx5000 blue-tooth keyboard and mouse to it. The
keyboard and mouse runs both M$ and Linux Os's, really cool. Now in Linux, 
I do not have all keyboard features setup yet, maybe in time.

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 Rick Sivernell
 Dallas, Texas  75287
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