[techtalk] light laptops for linux?

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:21:08PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Telsa Gwynne thought:
>     o It turns out that adding extra RAM is very easy indeed on
> my Vaio, (and I'd already denied myself support by installing
> the warranty so invalidating the guarantee by letting the dear 
> one open it up wasn't a major concern :))

I was investigating laptops recently and asked the sales guy (naturally!)
about getting a pcmcia NIC (It already had an inbuilt (win?)modem).  He
told me "That would invalidate the warranty".  So, I can have pcmcia
slot(s) in my laptop so long as I don't use them!?

Conor (wondering would they let me carry a 15" monitor and PC into the
cabin of the airplane..)
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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