~Toughbooktalk~

No Pics but it sounds like it will be modeled after the CF18/19 laptop to tab.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2138920/ ... twist.html

Thoughts?

Sorry the long time between posts. I thought the mods were going to move some posts in to this thread. So far I have had Unbutu 9.04, 10.10 and curently Mint 13. Unbunu was ok and I some of the front buttons working but i could not get new enough browser for what I need to do with it. That led me to...

Here in lies the the Chronicles... Well at least some thing like that.

well I tried unbuntu 9.04 and 10.10 on my BT and they work but I could ot get gmail or VLC to work on either one. So I now have mint 13 Xfce it is runnig well so far how ever the touchscreen need to be calibated and brightness hot keys don't work. Any ideas to fix that?

A quick update for you all. I downloaded mint 13 Xfce and i found a dvd with ubnutu 9.04 on it. I put the 9.04 on 40gb drive that came with the laptop ( which i am using to make this post:0) the ETA on 160gb HD is now next week so i will have time to play on the smaller drive for a bit. I also found...

I have a CF-18D as well, running Linux Mint. It's based on Ubuntu, without some of the upgrade drama every six months (seriously, this kills my interest every time I try Ubuntu again). You'll need to start with Mint 13 (that's the latest that supports the 18D's non-PAE processor), or you can go wit...

Hello TBT I'm just entered the land of toughbook ownership. I bought a CF-18DHAZXKM 512MB ram and 40GB HD (ETA of 02/12) . I ordered an 160GB HD (ETA sometime this week) and IBM power supply (ETA 02/13) for it. I want to get 1GB stick of ram for and put linux on it. I just have a couple of question ...