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Me?Yes, you. Glad to see you're still with us, buddy. :-)
The 2200 I bought from you was to put into my wife's Toshiba which was only designed for Achereos(?)Atheros ;-)
cards in the BIOS/Hardware or something like that, I had to use a blade to cut two of the contacts (this was a known) to make it work, but the physical switches on the laptop won't work (a known). That laptop runs so hot, that the card's holders are brittle and cracking, too.Ah, now I recall. I was thinking it was for a ThinkPad. Mea culpa. Still, I ran into the 1802 issue with a 2915 (supported card) in a T43 (it was a Dell OEM card and not an Intel or IBM OEM one).
I was thumbing through the electronic sale papers to day and laptops w/ a i7 720qm w/4G ram, 15.6" screen, 3hr battery, 500 G hd, and GT230M w/1Gb discrete memory were under a $1000. i3 versions half that. There's going to fire sales on dual cores in the stores soon.True, but much of the quality is tanking as well, from what I can see. Cases so light that they break too easily (and flex, which is actually worse); LCDs in lids with no rigidity; poor ventilation (okay, I run a T43, and it can fry an egg - though it keeps my hands warm this time of year!)...the list goes on. Still the business class machines are $1K - $2K. The others can be tossed after 18 months (which is the point, after all).
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com <mailto:os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>> wrote:
Unknown. I know that I had a batch of 2200's and another of
2915's, and at least one or two gave Stan some fits in a
ThinkPad. I was surprised, but happened to test one a few
weeks ago in a T43, and the dang thing wouldn't boot up (and
the 1802 fix for the earlier series does *not* work on the T43
and above).
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