Re: tlug: Sony Vaio

[Cliff Miller <cliff@example.com>]

> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:30:46 +0900 (JST)
> From: Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
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> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> > 
> > > The XBF-Neomagic server will deal with it.  The non-accelerated
> > > reverse-engineered driver in TLJ's SVGA server will also deal with it,
> > > albeit not as well. 
> > 
> > Buying a product that uses the Neomagic chip makes Neomagic happy.  They
> > won't see any advantage to releasing programming specs if people buy the
> > equipment anyway.  This is XFree86's main objection to that RE'd Neomagic
> > driver.
> > 
> > We want to punish the companies that aren't nice to us, and reward the
> > companies that are ;)
> > 
> > > Better yet, get a different notebook that uses a C&T chipset :)
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> I wouldn't personally buy a notebook with the NM chip in it.  Nor would I
> buy a Panasonic Let's Note, even if it had a different video chip.  Why?
> I think Jonathan put it best when he said, "The 'e' at the end was a
> mistake - it should be, "Let's Not"".
> 
> Cliff's machine sometimes needs resetting (not sure if it's still doing
> that), and Jonathan's friend Hiromi has one where the functionality of the
> 'Fn' key is REVERSED - ie you have to hold it down to get the letters on
> the keys that also map to the number pad. :)  And they ship a flakey
> PCMCIA IDE card for their CD drives.  hmph.

No, it doesn't need resetting. I like my Let's Note just fine -- great 
little machine.

Cliff

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Cliff Miller
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