Re: [tlug] Favorite Linux laptops these days?

[Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:
> I think BIOS still requires a separate battery nowadays.  Should be a
> cylindrical watch battery.  However, without any juice, the system
> should still start up.  The computer will just beep and say that the
> BIOS has been reset.  I don't know how long those batteries last.

So there's a base set of settings that live even if the BIOS battery dies then?

> I heard they are suppose to recharge if the computer is plugged into
> power.  But I'm not too sure about that.

They went without power for about eight years (and there was no main
battery installed).

> Your old Dynabooks probably died due to another reason.  Maybe the
> closet was damp, etc.

No - it was a nice, dry closet away from the outer walls of the building, etc.

> .... but my Toshiba laptop is still running after over 15 years.
> Correction...it was working the last time I turned it on a few years
> ago.  It is currently being neglected in a closet...which I should
> remember to go home tonight to check for moisture.  :-)

I'd be interested in hearing if it works.  If it's like mine, there
will nothing at all - not even an indication of the machine getting
power (I don't think that both power supplies died, but I suppose
that's another possibility).