Mr. George and his laptop quest

[willawake]

Philips Freevents X50 - 1.73Ghz pentium m 740, 512mb, 60gb, dvdrw, 12.1 screen, 1.78kg, wifi, 3 usb

euro 1.099

are these any good? who makes them? one of the guys in the office wants one.

i was pushing for a fujitsu cos then i know there is support. these philips are exclusive to one chain of stores here and you know what that means about support.

[Rainbow]

Re: Philips Laptops

I'm afraid that the support will be bad - something like Sony.

[willawake]

Re: Philips Laptops

no i think it will be worse. apparently there is no support pages from philips. also quite a few complaints about touchpad issues. doesnt come with any cds, everything is preinstalled only. (tsk tsk).

anyway appears to be a rebadged twinhead 12D
http://www.twinhead.com/product_note...n_notebook.asp
and drivers available on their site

i bet he buys it lol........

[tiresias]

Re: Philips Laptops

Philips Freevents X50

One only hopes that Freevents isn't a reference to the capacitors it uses.

[willawake]

Re: Philips Laptops

yes the name is rather strange and amusing. i was researching some more.

here is a review
twinhead stylebook 12d review (german google translated)

gigabyte N211U same thing built also by twinhead

the gigabyte looks more attractive although the philips is silver not white

The expandability is limited actually only on the CCU possesses the Notebook of two memory module card locations, but those are not accessible and only to the Reseller accessible, which opens the Notebook with special tool.

what tool? there is an opportunity to purchase another tool? : hehehe i have most torx

i did not understand why the gigabyte hits 73oC cpu ouch! (full load 12 hr burn in) whilst the twinhead hits 47oC.

looks lilke flybook plastic crap

[tylerlough]

Re: Philips Laptops

I have always been able to open stuff with special srews, I just make my own tool by grindding down the end of a file

[Spacedye69]

Re: Philips Laptops

I think the german would have been easier to understand than that translation

[arneson]

Re: Philips Laptops

(quote) Pentium M processor is propelled, alternatively can one it also with a Celeron to be

This may be a problem.
I know because I've propelled some across the room.

[willawake]

Re: Philips Laptops

lol remember the p4 packaging before they changed it. when you had to break the seal and it was difficult. i sent several p4s flying across the office opening those.

i saw the philips today. it looks attractive and build is ok. screen is not one of the brightest. unfortunately he is going to buy it lol.

[arneson]

Re: Philips Laptops

I've sent cheetos flying the same way.

[willawake]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

ok so Mr. George has changed his mind again. the Philips is off the list.



now he wants one that is not available yet. its nice though.

AMILO Si 1520
core duo 1.66, 512mb, 12"tft, 1.7kg, 80gb, dvdr, 945gm with 950 graphics, lan, modem, wireless, bluetooth - 1270 euro

will we have a sale? i hope so.

here is a funny bit

[Galvanized]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Just a thought willawake. I can't find the link but MS will not support XP Home as long as it is going to support XP Pro. In a few years time those with Home will be milked for an upgrade.
Found it http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060103-5891.html

If your buyer has Office 2003 or Office XP on his home PC that license/CD can be used to install and activated his lappy. To be read here in unclear English http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_faq.mspx

I have just read the above and have no first hand experiance. Don't own a lappy.

[Galvanized]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Sorry for the alarm, as I had not read that artical from ARS Technica in awhile and the link at the bottom does state that XP Home support has been extended "quietly"

[Per Hansson]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Sorry for the alarm, as I had not read that artical from ARS Technica in awhile and the link at the bottom does state that XP Home support has been extended "quietly"

Yea, MS realized that since Vista had been so delayed there would be no "new" OS to buy before "Home" expired

[Rainbow]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Yea, MS realized that since Vista had been so delayed there would be no "new" OS to buy before "Home" expired

There is a lot of other OSs to buy, just not from M$

[arneson]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Advice or experiences with laptop service and dependability is of great interest to me.
I'll just mention my ones. (may stir up some comments)
I am now on the Gateway solo, kept outside on lanai.
Also there's an older Satellite out here, both are folding but not much horsepower.
These are dependable but large, I only close the lid for a hurricane.
Two NEC Versa's nice and slim light weight, all batteries weak but working.
Two more Satellites, don't use much. One controls the ER1 robot.
All Thinkpads have gone dead, memory control issue and looks like planned oblsolescence.
Seen many bad Dells, seen some bad HPs but fixing the laptops is only a hobby for me, not my business. Sorry for the long FYI, maybe move this somewhere.

[kc8adu]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

There is a lot of other OSs to buy, just not from M$

the best are free and open source!
i only have one system thats mine that is still infected with the billygates virus.
its a libretto 110 that i just got for $20 at a yardsale and havnt had time to wipe the hdd.

[Galvanized]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

Well excuuuze me I only posted about M$ because Mr.George maybe as lame as I am concerning software. If I had been smart, the junk box would not have been given away. It would be a Linux learning rig

[willawake]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

actually i could not see any people whose computers i fix running linux. they struggle enough with windows. on the server side i fully believe in the benefits of linux and the desktop side has indeed come a long way. otherwise i could not care what desktop os they run as long as it is stable and requires minimal training from me. they want xp and i have no problem with that.

[Spacedye69]

Re: Mr. George and his laptop quest

I spend more time cleaning, defragging, and updating my 1 XP machine that my wife and kids mostly use than anything I do on my other comps. Fedora Core and other bleeding edge distros are fun as well. BTW Fedora Core 5 rocks if any one hasn't used it yet.

We were all Linux for a while, but I got sick of Wine config for all their stupid games.