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| ksr | tablet pcThe tablet arrived, running Windows 2000 (it has a 'Designed for Windows 2000 & Windows 98' sticker on it). Despite that it runs quickly and silently. This beast has a modem socket (always handy), a serial port (always handy), microphone and headphone sockets (handy because the internal speaker is really quiet), two infrared ports (top and bottom), a PCMCIA slot (I'll probably get a PCMCIA WiFi card), and all of one USB port. It also came with a nice infrared keyboard and a spare battery. The screen is nice, 800x600 with a good viewing angle, and is supposed to work well outdoors.
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There you have it - yesterday's mobile computing future, today!
Currently looking for a registry hack to move scrollbars to the left side of the window (I'm left-handed) (yes I know Linux can do this easily :P). | 2009-12-18 | 4:45 PM |
| Todd | Re:tablet pcWow! That's pretty awesome! I wish I had a docking stand I could give you because I had a Stylistic LT last year (I sold it) which was about the same size and had a dock where you could set it to keep it propped up on a table. Mine had a wired USB keyboard and ran Windows 98, so yours is definitely faster. It looks nice and would probably be great for outdoor stuff or when you're on the move. | 2009-12-18 | 6:51 PM |
| ksr | Re:tablet pcYeah, it could do with some rubber feet on the bottom side to stop it from slipping when you prop it up against something.
I'm already tired of Windows 2000, so I'm going to try to put a linux on it. How can I install from Windows? It won't boot from USB so I need to somehow create a new partition, install linux (still deciding which distro) and then delete the windows partition. | 2009-12-18 | 8:22 PM |
| Brandon | Re:tablet pcI'd use the QEMU port for Windows to do the actual install. I'd say tinycore, its small and expandable. | 2009-12-18 | 9:08 PM |
| Todd | Re:tablet pcDoesn't your Stylistic have a hard drive? I'd take out the drive and put it in a laptop, install Linux, then put the hard drive back in the Stylistic and finish up the install. | 2009-12-18 | 9:39 PM |
| Brandon | Re:tablet pcThat actually is probably the best idea :) | 2009-12-19 | 11:50 AM |
| Todd | Re:tablet pcIt worked several times. Although for some reason DSL gets flaky when I do that. Sometimes the MBR gets messed up or the system doesn't recognize the OS partition and says "Operating system not found". | 2009-12-19 | 2:17 PM |
| ksr | Re:tablet pcYeah that's probably what I'll do, although I've had some problems in the past doing it that way.
tinycore looks good, but I have more room to play with. I'm looking at crunchbang at the moment. | 2009-12-19 | 6:44 PM |
| Brandon | Re:tablet pcI'd use tinycore even with space, it has Firefox and Pidgin in the repo, what else could you want? | 2009-12-19 | 7:29 PM |
| ysft | Re:tablet pchttp://wubi-installer.org/ | 2009-12-19 | 9:09 PM |
| Todd | Re:tablet pcThat Wubi looks like an emulator. Reminds me of the PortableUbuntu package: http://portableubuntu.sf.net/ | 2009-12-19 | 9:44 PM |
| Brandon | Re:tablet pcBad idea, I doubt that thing has much RAM, probably not even enough for Ubuntu. Puppy Linux,DSL,Tinycore, or a customized Debian install are probably the best options, unless it has more than 256MB RAM. | 2009-12-20 | 7:07 AM |
| Todd | Re:tablet pcThe Stylistic's typically don't, especially those models. I'd guess it has 128 MB of RAM. Mine only had 64 MB. | 2009-12-20 | 8:28 AM |
| ksr | Re:tablet pcIt has 256MB of RAM. I think tinycore is a bit too basic, as I couldn't even get WiFi to work on my laptop, so on the tablet it's probably a no go. I'm going to try DSL and Puppy now. | 2009-12-20 | 11:57 AM |
| ksr | Re:tablet pcupdate: just checked my laptop, unfortunately it has a SATA connector so I won't be able to transplant the hard drive (without buying an adaptor which I can't be bothered to do). So I'm going to pursue the install-via-windows route. You mentioned QEMU, Brandon - will that let me actually install or is it just a virtual machine? | 2009-12-20 | 8:11 PM |
| Brandon | Re:tablet pcIt'll let you install. You'd probably have to set up an other partition (other than the win2000 one) and then use QEMU with your hdd used as the primary one for the VM and then install your OS. | 2009-12-20 | 8:15 PM |
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