Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | | Subject | Re: VAIOs and Linux (was Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | | Date | 4 Jun 1999 07:24:41 GMT |
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In article <ut24skprqmw.fsf@lydia.adaptive.net>, Anil B. Somayaji <soma@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > >The VAIO PCG-505TS (and the other 505s, I think) comes with a port >replicator, with two PS/2 ports, a video out, a serial port, and a >parallel port.
And the other VAIO's don't. The small picturebook VAIO, for example, comes with firewire, USB, video, audio, modem and IR. And nothing else. The only way to connect a floppy to it is through the USB (the thing comes with a USB floppy) or with a PCMCIA card.
Even then the video is a "compressed formfactor" thing that requires a special cable. Which in fact is a much better solution than the one I have seen on larger laptops, where they often use a regular VGA connector but then have so little space around it that many VGA cables still do not work without whittling the plastic down from around the connector.
>I've been very happy with my VAIO, and I have to complement Sony on >producing a great small, relatively fast laptop that also happens to >be extremely Linux-friendly.
I also really like the VAIO. It's good engineering from all I can tell, but the engineers also obviously decided that they'd be able to go the extra mile in being compact only by depending on modern devices. A choice I like, as I'm getting tired of all the legacy stuff around.
But easy to install? Nope.
Linus
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