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steve of oxford
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`just bought one second hand, fair condition.....£300
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Excellent news Steve, well done!
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steve of oxford
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Robert wrote:
Excellent news Steve, well done!
It's revision 2 with the TFT display 1G Ram 2.16G core duo. But considering there's nowt wrong with it I thought it was a snip at the price.
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Please keep us up to date with your next project to refine silicon to make replacement chips!
How is the battery project going?
Ed
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Ed the reason Steve got the MB was so he could replace the silicon with biochips!
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steve of oxford wrote:
`just bought one second hand, fair condition.....£300
Well done so its linux and OSX now.
There are huge similarities between the two OSes.
No need to run virus scanning software unless you are a games downloader. Or paranoid.
Better by design springs to mind 
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Don't they both have the same foundations JK?
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steve of oxford
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Constable...battery project is on hold pending a workshop rebuild.
Macbook, not amused.....see new topic
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steve of oxford
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Now have Office for Mac on it. Ha this thing rocks!
Should have bought one years ago. Now I don't know what to do with my old Toshiba, which by comparison is a goliath.
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steve of oxford wrote: Now have Office for Mac on it. Ha this thing rocks!
Should have bought one years ago. Now I don't know what to do with my old Toshiba, which by comparison is a goliath.
Run linux on it. It will suddenly become fast and responsive once that Windoze thing is removed.
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jk wrote:
steve of oxford wrote: Now have Office for Mac on it. Ha this thing rocks!
Should have bought one years ago. Now I don't know what to do with my old Toshiba, which by comparison is a goliath.
Run linux on it. It will suddenly become fast and responsive once that Windoze thing is removed.
I used to have mint on it for years without any trouble Jonathan, but following a hard drive failure I found distros no longer had drivers for it, so back to xp.
Main comp is an abit board P4 HT 2.8G, in RAID 0 with two matched Hitachi 500G drives. Pretty fast for it's age, and dead reliable.
But for portable and general use this Macbook takes the crown. Particularly impressed with the power consumption.
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Something like Ubuntu has loads of drivers but it is difficult actually identifying which ones you need.
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jk wrote:
Something like Ubuntu has loads of drivers but it is difficult actually identifying which ones you need.
I spent ages on the Linux Toshiba driver issue, but concluded that Ubuntu basically had left the laptop hardware behind.
I eventually reinstalled the original mint 6 that worked well, but got sick and tired of failed to fetch errors.....same for all the ubuntu distros I tried.
Funny thing is when I went back to XP pro, it didn't seem to get clobbered with viruses like it used to.
Not to worry, it'll do as a spare even if it is big & fat (more like a portable desktop than a laptop)
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