~Toughbooktalk~

just thought that I'll mention I'm still alive?

short story: on-n-off illness bouts and crappy winter

long story: still really looking for a canadian CF-30-MK2/-MK3 ofc

why does it seem like its not really winter nor spring either for several days now and still to continue onto next week as well????? instead I'm stuck with something thats like snow at just barely above zero so you can image how wet and sticky that is!!!!!! and cue trying to clear out the driveway w...

I have to agree, I've always found too many laptops a bit on the hot side in first place even without going outdoor yet on a bit of offtopic note but one of the major reason I hated most laptops newer than the classic P-M or any G4 these years is because companies seem to keep wanting to put the 45W...

heh thanks to both of you

do these two cards draw power even if not actively used or not?

sorry if that question was a bit naive but I haven't found much online for some reason

thanks

amusing timing, I was just checking forum to see if there were any new posts to read yet... I actually found one in kingston on kijiji but going to wait and see if seller writes back re whether he wants to ship or not I still haven't found any places with toughbooks other than 'out of stock' on tige...

mm guess I'll put off any usa sources I had found just for my sake then

I'll have a look at finding some east canada sources like you were saying :-)

are toughbook sales always in usa? if so I guess that private sale may be a bit easier than from a store if coming from usa since the former wouldn't be any problem to mark as a gift just for the sake of not getting any crazy pulled-out-of-hat custom fee (how is it that a $100 package gets $2 fee wh...

you're right about the keyboard and other things being replaceable if needed, unless I'm wrong its probably pretty much only the screen and intergrated graphics that I will have to be specific about upfront since swaps of these might be a bit beyond me thanks for the tip re the screen, I hadn't been...

thanks for letting me join rob :-) sorry if this is a long post for my first one but sometimes I talk a lot like that *smirks* so mm anyway onto the point now, I've been thinking of tracking down this for myself: CF-30 MK2 or MK3 (leaning toward either GMA gpus in that respect) touchscreen would had...