Recent content by timfountain

UK customs will stiff you with VAT, and I seem to recall there is an import tax on high tech items, but I cannot find any references to it. Also you will have a US keyboard, and I know from experience that UK customs used to look at keyboards to determine where the Notebook was bought. Keep the...

Take the HDD out of the laptop, and put it in a desktop machine which has a working CDROM (may need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter). Boot with an original Win 98 floppy (should have the CDROM driver). fdisk and format the 2.5" HDD, and sys c: to make it bootable. copy the whole contents of the XP CD to...

See:- http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=8797772&storeId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=2049168&dualCurrId=73&catalogId=-840 Seems like a fairly mainstream corporate product. Suprised most manufacturers are putting 5400RPM drives in these guys. Also...

I know there are a rash of Notebooks coming, but I have not seen any with ExpressCard. Seems like most of the manufacturers are missing a trick. I know there are software issues right now which are keeping some of the more conservative manufacturers away from Express Card, but I would have...