[WBEL-users] Re: Which Notepad

[Neil Han]

Terry,

Thank you so much for your such detailed reply. I was thinking about
ThinkPad. Now Gateway is an option to me too.

Have a great Day!!

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:12:05 -0600, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:54:59 -0700, Neil Han <neil.han at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for your replies!
> >
> > Seems it is not a big problem. I will let everyone know when I got my
> > notebook is bought and installed the whitebox.
> >
> > Have a great day!
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> I've yet to put whitebox on one yet, but did FC1 install on my sisters
> Gateway almost a year ago and it went rather well.  Seems to be a nice
> systme still. Just doing some updates on it now, and I'm rather
> envious.
> It's about a two year old vintage, nodel 400SD4 shown on this page:
> http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/400SD4/3501309nv.shtml
> It's a:
> 2.4GHz Intel  w/ 512 L2 cahce
> CD-RW / DVD Combo drive
> 30.0 GB HD
> And everything worked rather nicely from the start. I had to download
> drivers for the AC'97 Modem which is _not_ supported under the 2.6
> kernel so far, so I'm not upgrading it yet to FC2 or FC3 just yet
> because she will loose the use of the modem if I do. But I see no real
> reason to anyway, everything works really nice as it is, CD burning,
> DVD viewing etc, all works rather flawlessly and it's been used rather
> heavily for almost a year now by all members of the family. They drag
> it around everywhere and use it more than I ever thought they would. I
> went over there two times so far and found it shoved under the couch,
> closed up and still running, (other laptops will overheat but this one
> seems to have pretty good heat disposal.), they leave it running
> almost all the time.  They just use dialup and so they use the modem
> frequently and it appears to work just fine.
> I just bought her a Cisco Aronet 340 and plugged it in and it came
> right up, loaded the airo_cs driver automatically and worked like a
> charm.  I did however download and install kwifimanager for her, so
> that she can work with some of the Internet cafe's and hotspots.
>  It looks to be comparable to the 40SD5 Plus shown on page below:
> http://gateway.com/home/products/eoled_ptb.shtml?cmpid=consumer*homepage*Button_2*Notebook_Clearance_599*home/products/eoled_ptb~~shtml
> I'm not all that fond of some of the Gateway PCs I've seen in the
> past, but this laptop seems to be rock solid.
>