[plug] Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B

[Daniel Pearson]

Yep, hit the nail on the head. Lots of laptops these days have that as a 
feature, and like you said - very handy for on the plane. I know I've 
used it a lot.

Cheers; Dan

Shannon Carver wrote:
> Actually, that reminds me.  Off topic here, 
>
> But we sold an LG Laptop at work a couple of months ago which had a similar
> feature, it had an offline linux based DVD player, where you could start the
> Laptop as a functioning DVD Player only.
>
> I'm not completely sure of its usefulness (Might be a good movie player on
> planes due to possibly less power use than when the actual laptop is
> running???!?), or just for a great portable DVD viewer, but it was a pretty
> cool feature to have on the top.
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
>> Of W.Kenworthy
>> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 4:08 PM
>> To: plug at plug.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [plug] Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B
>>
>> Just picked it up - couldnt resist and booted it immediately using a
>> gentoo 2006.0 livecd.  Seems everything is pretty standard.  One
>> interesting point is this thing can play CD's without being booted up -
>> does it by an embedded linux system! There is a list of linux files
>> involved in the manual.  Have to see if I can keep it when I
>> repartition.
>>
>> Nothing like a 'new' toy - I know what I am doing tonight ... "death to
>> windoze!"
>>
>> Billk
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:05 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
>>     
>>> It will be delivered Friday (I hope!).  Waiting for the dell to fully
>>> keel over.  Its so slow running on one 512 sodimm compared to the 1G (2
>>> sodimm) I was using before the fault developed - cant wait!
>>>
>>> BillK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:39 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
>>>       
>>>> W.Kenworthy wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B.  Looks mostly
>>>>>           
>> standard
>>     
>>>>> stuff, and I like the small size (I need portability more than grunt
>>>>> these days!)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Did you end up looking at this machine seriously?
>>>> I have one here for a few days that belongs to a friend and I love it,
>>>>         
>> thinking of getting one
>>     
>>>> myself but I'm going to spend a day or two beating it with linux first
>>>>         
>> to check its various bits.
>>     
>>>>
>>>>         
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