elfs | Back to the Pentium-2

Well, frack. There goes another one. The T23 exhibits the same symptoms under Windows as it does under Linux. I put in its old hard drive and tried to run it, and I still get the same intermittent screen failures and other screen artifacts that I was getting under Linux, so it's not the drivers. It died the first time when I first got it, but this is just annoying; it fell out of its warranty a few weeks ago (it was only 90 days). Now what do I do?

It's not like I'm cruel to my laptops. I keep them in a padded sleeve in my briefcase and yeah, I tend to run the software hard, but I'm not like, viciously cruel to them or anything. I don't drop them. This is really making me annoyed.

I've re-initialized the 600e. At least it hasn't failed me, although I have to replace the keyboard soon. The space bar is being held up by a pair of springs I cut out of an old click pen. But it's too slow to play movies or run some of my Japanese translation exercise programs. And it has one-quarter the memory of the T23, meaning I can't run more than one Mozilla product at once: Thunderbird or Firefox or Liferea. I'm getting good at restoring to the T23.