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Title: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Ryu on April 10, 2004, 07:47:48 PM
Im dead chuffed with myself now, Ive just won a powermac from ebay for a very tidy sum of money :-)

I was originally after one of redrumloa's laptops but postage costs to the UK would of crippled me.

Good thing is, whith a laptop I can write my show reports on the way back from the show so I can have the report online even quicker than before :-)

oh yeah... the link to the auctions here: ebay.co.uk (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4122879386&category=4606&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1)
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: bloodline on April 10, 2004, 08:13:00 PM
Laptops rock.

Enjoy :-)
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: NightShade737 on April 10, 2004, 08:34:02 PM
The spec isn't exactly good, but then I think it isn't an x86 machine, and the OS can't be far from the classic Amiga OSs as it is one of the Mac OSs from the time, so it shouldn't run slow anyway.

What is the size and battery life like anyway?
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: bloodline on April 10, 2004, 08:40:48 PM
Hey Ryu, if it's OpenFirmware based you could try AROS, it looks like we are going to see some movement in the PPC port soon.
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Dan on April 10, 2004, 10:02:36 PM
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bloodline wrote:
Hey Ryu, if it's OpenFirmware based you could try AROS, it looks like we are going to see some movement in the PPC port soon.

It looks more like a m68k machine 16MB Ram,800mb hd system7.5.3

So no AROS before the m68k port is finnished  :-)
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: KennyR on April 10, 2004, 10:04:56 PM
Speaking of laptops, just this moment someone pointed this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4598&item=4123535281) out to me on eBay...
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Ryu on April 10, 2004, 10:43:49 PM
nah its NuBus not openfirmware. Ive looked into linux but even the choice there seems quite limiting. I think I'll just get MacOS8.6 for it once ive upgraded the ram that is.
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Ryu on April 10, 2004, 10:45:38 PM
actually its a powerbook1400cs/117. That means its a 117mhz PowerPC603e not a 68k machine :-). Even so I expect it to be slow with no ondie cache, but I can get a sonnet G3 card for it. But my first upgrade will be more ram...
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Dan on April 11, 2004, 12:41:18 AM
 :whack: myself
powerbook1400 was that the one with paper inlays?
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Dan on April 11, 2004, 12:46:28 AM
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KennyR wrote:
Speaking of laptops, just this moment someone pointed this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4598&item=4123535281) out to me on eBay...

Wheels not included :-)

I always wanted to do an amigalaptop based on the Access, it´s a bit smaller and better specs than a A600.
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Ryu on April 11, 2004, 02:46:50 AM
hmm not sure what you mean about inlays...
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Wolfe on April 11, 2004, 07:46:40 AM
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Ryu wrote:
hmm not sure what you mean about inlays...


The 1400 series was designed to be portables with personallity.  They feature a clear exterior panel called a "Bookcover", which lets you personalize the appearance of you powerbook.  You can add some wild and funky covers.


 8-)
Title: Re: wooohooo I have myself a laptop!
Post by: Ryu on April 11, 2004, 11:26:06 AM
oh yeah, i read about that. Mines got the black bookcover on it still (I guess its standard)... Ive put up the images the seller emailed me here (http://www.ryusworld.webhop.net/temp/laptop).