{"id":244,"date":"2004-11-03T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T22:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=244"},"modified":"2004-11-03T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T22:45:18","slug":"new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/244","title":{"rendered":"New Laptop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received my new <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.alienware.com\/product_detail_pages\/Sentia\/sentia_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-SENTIA&#038;SubCode=SKU-PERFORMANCE\">Alienware Sentia<\/a>. I got it for the good screen (1280&#215;800) and the availability of a dvd+- burner for less than a thinkpad x40.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on the transition:<br \/>\nTo move my data from my old Dell Inspiron 4100 to my new system, I actually just moved the hard drive from one machine to the other.  I have a 7200RPM 60 gig drive, so it made sense anyway.<\/p>\n<p>When I booted up, I ran kudzu and let it reconfigure everything.  That got the sound, USB, firewire, and ethernet working.  On the whole I was very impressed with how much was automatic.<\/p>\n<p>Things I had to do manually:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I needed to add a modeline for the 1280&#215;800 screen.  I googled that in about a minute, and added it to the xorg.conf file.  A look at the man page told me how to get the monitor to use that specific mode.<\/li>\n<li>I needed to get custom drivers for the Intel 2200 BG wireless card.  That took more like a half hour to figure out the installation process (you need to put firmware files in a specific place)<\/li>\n<li>XVideo was totally washed out on the default settings, but playing with the brightness and contast in totem fixed that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it.  I have wireless, video, sound, and I have to test cd burning, but that&#8217;s it.  Under an hour of poking and my whole system is moved to a completely new laptop.  I don&#8217;t think I could have done it any faster on any other platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received my new Alienware Sentia. I got it for the good screen (1280&#215;800) and the availability of a dvd+- burner for less than a thinkpad x40. Thoughts on the transition: To move my data from my old Dell Inspiron 4100 to my new system, I actually just moved the hard drive from one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Laptop!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}