On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:31:28AM +0100, Simon Royal wrote:
I picked up my Umax laptop. It has been a traumatic 24 hours.
This is so annoying, any ideas. Is this laptop broken, am I doing something wrong.
Spec is: AMD K62 475Mhz, 256MB RAM, 15GB hard drive, combo drive.
Well, you've bought an ancient laptop that was based on a Clevo model and that had pretty bad hardware support at the time when it was new. Now we're 10 years down the line and things have moved on. My honest answer, buy a laptop from a more recent period of time as it is unlikely to ever work very well with modern software. Clevo hardware was dreadful when it was new and was difficult to make it work nicely so your chances of making it work well are slim.
At least the Thinkpad 600E was good hardware for the time it was made and popular and long lasting so you will have far better chances of making it work. As for the Umax... I'd take it to the recycling centre.
Adam