I am trying to install Fedora 10 on a T500 Thinkpad from a CD that I burnt myself (using an ISO image downloaded from the Fedora web site). I saw from previous posts that I first have to disable the switchable graphics on the laptop in the BIOS setup, which I've now done. But when the CD loads, it c...

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In another installment of her ongoing efforts to mod the Acer Aspire 1, [tnkgrl] has added eSATA capabilities. During the hard drive upgrade she did, she used the spare PATA connection, leaving an SATA connection free. This time she has gone in and extended it to be accessible outside the case. To d...

*sigh* This is vaguely reminiscent of exactly a year ago... But this time I'm under warranty and HP had better fix it, damn it. My display is doing that stupid flickering thing again - the exact same flickering thing that started on my Inspiron 6000 a few months before it died completely last year r...

Reader tking says his laptop started out with a bad power jack — but has slowly escalated in brokenness with each Dell intervention. tking says: My problems started when my Dell Vostro 1510 laptop wouldn't keep the power cord plugged in without extra effort. The first tech support person was m...

Mouse Computer Japan introduces their latest LuvBook series laptop, the LuvBook TW600X model. Retailed for €800 (about $1,016 USD), the notebook features a 15.4-inch WXGA display, an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor, a 4GB of DDR2 main memory, a 320GB of hard drive, Blu-Ray burner, Intel GM45 Expr...

Here goes another choice for you who want to buy a netbook, the IdeaPad S9e from China-based company Lenovo. Like most others mini laptop, this compact 8.9-inch notebook is powered by Intel Atom N270 processor and Intel 945GSE chipset. It also features a 1GB of main memory, a 160GB of hard disk, a L...

A followup to last year's G71, the G71Gx has ASUS at its extravagant best. The 17-inch laptop packs a WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution, backed up by a brand-new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M graphics card with 1GB of VRAM. There's also room for 12GB of RAM and dual 500GB hard drives inside, along with Blu-r...

I had what some might call an epiphany tonight. It was rather sudden, like most epiphanies are. Mine happened while I was sitting in our rather comfy orange chair in the living room watching ‘Wall-E’. I had my laptop open next to me and I was surfing the net while watching the flick. Iâ€...

Anyone have any recent experience with Hackintosh or OSx86 on the MSI Wind netbook? I'm preparing to try out OS X on an MSI Wind, which has recently released hardware drivers for OS X negating the wifi hardware swap required for it to work. I'm looking for links, personal experience and information ...