[Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

[Jason LaPier]

I don't need the firewire port - I didn't expect it had one. I was
responding to:
"mikemcoo at efn.org> wrote:
Can't exactly find the spex at their site, so may I ask you: will your 
lappy have a firewire port?"
...and the later emails of Mike (not you, but mikemcoo at efn.org) saying
he found the manual and the images of the ports. Just wanted to let him
know, that no, it does not come with firewire.

On a side note, AFAIK the e1505's have Intel CPUs, and being a long-time
fan of AMD, I was happy to see some Dell notebooks to finally have AMD
CPUs :)  

- Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org 
> [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Miller
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:54 AM
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249
> 
> I think I was the one who posted that the 1501 does not have a IEEE
> 1394 port.  If you look at Dells web site page for the 1501 
> it does not list Firewire or IEEE 1394 as a port.  If you 
> spend some more cash the 1505 and the E1705 have 1394 but not 
> the 1501.  On the leap of faith that the firewire port 
> picture was from a 1501 manual.  Dell might send out the same 
> poster / manual for both the 1501 and 1505.
> If that's the case you might be able to get your self a 1505 
> from dell because what's on the laptop is not in the manual.  
> You might have to read the fine print that says firewire only 
> on 1505.  If your in need of the firewire port you might be 
> able to return the laptop and pay some more cash to get to the 1505.
> 
> Mike Miller
> 
> >On 11/30/06, Jason LaPier <jason.lapier at tacs.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> > Actually, my Inspiron 1501 came yesterday and it does _not_ have the
> > 1394 port. Instead of the configuration in the image you 
> attached, I 
> >see  the headphone and microphone jack above a SD/SDIO/MMC slot and 
> >next to  two USB ports. There is also a single PCMCIA card 
> slot on that 
> >side, and  on the back of the laptop there are two more usb ports, a 
> >network jack  and a phone jack, and an RGB video port. 
> (Note: there is 
> >no S-Video port
> > - in creating a lower-cost PC, Dell yanked some of the ports they  
> >probably figured were fairly low use among the bulk of they're  
> >end-users).
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