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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:33 pm
by Mike8
@cwestwater:
what is that grey thing unter your t43?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:28 am
by cwestwater
Mike8 wrote:@cwestwater:
what is that grey thing unter your t43?
It's one of
these. It folds over and tilts to stand your laptop in. Got it in Best Buy last time I was in the US
Yet another new pic
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:10 am
by eriqesque
Well as it turns out the Sony monitor from my set-up on the previous page, turned out to be crap so now I have this and absolutley love it.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:59 am
by daba
Nice monitor! What is it?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:41 am
by eriqesque
It's the Dell W1900 LCD TV
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:34 am
by WozniakMac
That's a really nice monitor. I was looking in to one of those, but wasn't sure of the quality. Picture and Build. How is it?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:56 am
by eriqesque
The build quality is excellent.
I have the PC side running thru the DVI and the TV side running Satllite thru S-Video and the picture is excellent on both.
You will see some artifact on the TV side, but thats due to Standard Definition TV and the fact that you sit so close.
As you move further away the picture improves. When I am going to use it as a TV and not the Pic n Pic, I will sit about 5 feet away and the picture is supurb. Dell is always running specials on these I picked it up for $599 and then I added 2yrs complete care. The warranty is really good on these. Complete care is for accidents and they offer advance exchange so they send you the new one and you send the old one back.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:44 pm
by bhtooefr
Any USB cable is USB 2.0 compliant, FWIW. There was no change in the cabling when the standard changed - only the chips on either end of the cable.
DavidNZ wrote:Yes, it is 100% bus-powered. Unlike many HDD enclosures, this one is handled explicitly by the power from my X40's left USB port.
I got mine from Dick Smith Electronics, which is an Australian outfit with a huge number of stores here in New Zealand (
www.dse.co.nz). The case is aluminum, so it runs quite cool.
I use it with a short USB cable that came with a multi-card reader I bought last year. Amazingly, the short cord turned out to be USB 2 compliant. Here's a photo showing the unit itself, the cable, the flash-card reader and a pen for perspective. Link to the unit:
http://tinyurl.com/67dx7
(picture)
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:16 pm
by JHEM
bhtooefr wrote:Any USB cable is USB 2.0 compliant, FWIW. There was no change in the cabling when the standard changed - only the chips on either end of the cable.
Just like G. Orwell's famous statement that "All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others", some older USB cables don't play well with USB2.0 devices.
Regards,
James
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:38 pm
by bhtooefr
Ah - low cable quality causing the signal to screw up at USB 2.0 speeds?
That'd explain it...
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:56 am
by JHEM
bhtooefr wrote:Ah - low cable quality causing the signal to screw up at USB 2.0 speeds?
That'd explain it...
There's no necessity to go overboard and start buying "Monster" USB2.0 cables, but neither is there a reasonable expectation for bulk packed $.02 USB cables to work every time with every device.
Regards,
James
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:20 am
by bhtooefr
Of course - makes perfect sense. Myself, I usually buy some cheap $5 10ft cables that say "USB 2.0 compliant" if I'm buying a USB cable.
FWIW, whenever I get a chance to actually GET my ThinkPad (it's been shipped, and it's made it to my school), you'll get pics. You DON'T want to see the desk setup, but you'll get comparative photos (well, you guys I'm sure all know how big an X21 is, but these'll also go up on my blog, and my friends don't know how big one is. Granted, they know how big this piece of crap is...)
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:57 am
by pianowizard
From left to right:
1) Thinkpad 240: 300MHz Celeron, 192MB RAM, 6GB HDD
2) Gateway E-3200: 1.1GHz Pentium III, 512MB RAM, 320GB HDD
3) Dell Inspiron 700m: 1.6GHz Pentium M, 512MB, 30GB HDD
4) Dell Inspiron 8200: 1.6GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD
Yes, I actually use all four of them simultaneously quite often.
I plan to replace the 128MB PC100 module in the TP240 with a 256MB module. Let's hope it will work! I have another Thinkpad at work, which is a 600E with 366MHz Pentium II.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:07 pm
by GoEatFood
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:27 pm
by DavidNZ
Hey GoEatFood, there's a guy on TV in your photo who is taking a pho...
Oh. Never mind - it's you.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:54 am
by Nebelfelsen
Home-Office 1
(the CRT-Screen ist "borrowed" from my second Home-Office and is normaly used in a dual screen environment there). Still waiting for a Dell 24 inch TFT for this workplace...
Home-Office 2
=> pic will be published End of August (will not be there before to take pictures...)
working in bed, on the sofa, ...
Office
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:56 am
by Orbitz
Nice setups Nobel
Dam your home office is nice and organized!
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:57 am
by Orbitz
Btw...what try is that you use on the couch /bed?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:59 pm
by Nebelfelsen
The table is from IKEA and is called "Rian" (but not found on IKEA's website; it is quite new; costs only about 15 $ and is available in black or in white).
I mounted a power socket (3 jacket power supply) and the ibm a/c-adapter below the table plate.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:08 pm
by Orbitz
Very cool!
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:53 am
by RCube
my "desk" for this week at my friends place.
He just moved to san jose...and we can only find free wifi in his bedroom.. :p
my t41 and his brand new t42p, which ibm gave him.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:25 pm
by daba
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:31 pm
by gunston
show me more exotic to raise my interest of thinkpad t series lappy please.
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:43 am
by bhtooefr
[joke]I have a friend's R50e that I'm configging, right now.
Anyway, last night, I caught my X and the R50 in bed together, and what's worse, is that my X was taking pics:
[/joke]
Is there something wrong with me?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:20 am
by pphilipko
bhtooefr wrote:[joke]I have a friend's R50e that I'm configging, right now.
Anyway, last night, I caught my X and the R50 in bed together, and what's worse, is that my X was taking pics:
[/joke]
Is there something wrong with me?
Uhhh....that does NOT look right...
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:23 am
by AlphaKilo470
bhtooefr wrote:[joke]I have a friend's R50e that I'm configging, right now.
Anyway, last night, I caught my X and the R50 in bed together, and what's worse, is that my X was taking pics:
All I can say is cyber-sex has taken on a whole new meaning...
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:44 pm
by denthorq
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:30 pm
by thePCxp
bhtooefr wrote:[joke]I have a friend's R50e that I'm configging, right now.
Anyway, last night, I caught my X and the R50 in bed together, and what's worse, is that my X was taking pics:
Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe they were just playing around.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:13 pm
by dcdomain
Did this a while back:
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:00 pm
by doppelfish
benz wrote:... but I would go insane if ...
I saw one thinkpad and two mice on my desk. What am I missing?
cheers,
-- fish
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