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9 months ago

in Help Me Out With Some “Laptop Experts” Questions, Win $50 on OhGizmo!
1. Tosh M205 - Most likely a bad stick of ram. But a replacement stick at a local shop (hell, get a bigger stick - not a bad time to bump up, ram is cheap). The Portege M205 has two ram slots, so check each in turn.

2. The "SM Bus" controller (system bus). This is a part of the AMD chipset (AMD M780V) on the motherboard. Unfortunately, I don't think there is an XP driver for this chipset.

3. Your choice of "broadband" wireless provider depends heavily on your location, but you'll probably be choosing between two providers - AT%T and Verizon.
AT&T's 3G wireless (HSDPA) has a pretty limited rollout so far compared to Verizon's (EV-DO). Check the service maps to figure out which one wil best suit your needs-
AT&T - http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/
Verizon - http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLoca...

10 months ago

in MSI Wind Is As Good As Promised, Almost on OhGizmo!
The Wind is made even more tempting by the fact that it can be easily hacked to run OSX -

http://www.modaco.com/content/asus-eee-pc-http-...

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