Made it back to the girlfriend's house without too much incident other than a scorchingly hot train ride. Now catching up on the news of the day, and trawling through email.
One interesting bit of news is that Russell Beattie has just bought an Advent laptop. Interesting, because my first laptop was Advent (sold through PC World in the UK, originally as PC World's "own brand" but then under the Advent name).
On the whole, I found the Advent to be a lovely bit of kit once I got used to the quirks and managed to get Linux running happily on it. I still miss proper suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk done by the BIOS (so it "just works") rather than the OS (guaranteed pain in linux as it's extremely vendor-specific and proprietary).
My Advent lasted me for three very hard-working years (think 24/7 operation, trekking round Europe and America, and generally being thrown about a heck of a lot). I only replaced it because I needed more than 1024x768 and more than 450mhz. It's now in retirement as the girlfriend's machine, so I still get to see it a lot ;-)
Russell also complains about the heat the laptop kicks off. What can I say? Welcome to mobile computing in the 21st Century! My P4/2.4Ghz is almost uncomfortably warm to type on right now, and the hardware monitors regularly report it's running at around 60°C inside. The curse of modern computing ...
Posted by savs at June 17, 2003 10:56 PM