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<font size="-1">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.<br>
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Cheers; Dan<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au">plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au">mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a>] On Behalf
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To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a>
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:
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">Anybody used linux on a sony vaio VGN-TX27GP/B. Looks mostly
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these days!)
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<pre wrap="">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,
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