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    Celeron M vs. Sempron

    The question, in my mind at least, is this: Is the Wal Mart Black Friday Sempron Laptop the 25W version or not? If it's the 25W version, that's a plus for it, as they're similarly configured and priced, otherwise. Anybody know or care to speculate?
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    Opinions wanted: HP ZV5410US

    Wasn't really suggesting a Powerbook, just rambling. I just lust after the battery life. You can usually get ahold of an outlet (or cigarette lighter) on the go. Except for parks and such. Most eating establishments don't go out of their way to make them available, but they have to plug...
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    Opinions wanted: HP ZV5410US

    Do you care about portability? You don't say, but from what you said you're going to use it for and the processor you're considering, I'd say no, you're after a desktop replacement that you might lug around once in a while. Battery life is going to blow chunks...I mean, you'll get an hour...
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    Well, the Phoenix BIOS Editor will take apart the latest BIOS Image, but it whines about unknown module types when it unpacks. I used prepare.exe and catenate.exe to repack it without editing anything as a test, but winphlash.exe won't flash it. It's whining something about a corrupt table. I...
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    Opinions wanted: HP ZV5410US

    If you must buy an HP, buy it with mini-PCI wireless or you'll be sorry: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=862043
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    Should i get this ibm t42? some question

    Buy it with a mini-PCI wireless card, or you'll have trouble later trying to add one, and it will cost you more $$$. http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/wireless.html
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    Im the market for a good GAMING laptop......

    The BIOS on newish HP/Compaq laptops contains a list of 'allowed' mini-PCI wifi adapters. If you plug in an adapter whose PCI ID is not on the list, the laptop will refuse to boot. The list will only contain the PCI IDs of the HP/Compaq branded cards offered with the laptops from the factory...
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    Im the market for a good GAMING laptop......

    That will get you functional wireless, but you don't ever get to upgrade. So when the latest 802.11.whatever standard comes out, you can't buy a card from Newegg and drop it in.
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    Im the market for a good GAMING laptop......

    Don't buy Compaq/HP. They're pulling that Bios mini-PCI whitelist crap that IBM does. You only ever get to use the mini-PCI wifi adapters they decide to let you use.
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    Okay, I'm pretty sure I found the whitelist in one of the decoded modules. My hex skills suck, but this many wifi device ids in close proximity cannot be a coincidence. Ow, Computer Architecture in College was...oh man, 10 years ago. And the hands on bits were on the 68k architecture...this...
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    Well, not quite *exact* instructions, but yes, much good stuff there. I'd seen that before, but hadn't realized until just now that prepare.exe and catenate.exe were included in BEDemo.zip. I'll give that a download and see if it will work with the Compaq BIOS image I'm toying with. If so...
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    Well, I found the whitelist, I think. But the bummer is, on the Compaq I'm playing with at least, it's in a compressed module. Looking at an uncompressed BIOS image, no sign of the appropriate PCI IDs. Using phnxdeco to take the sucker apart and decompress compressed modules, I can find what...
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    I didn't really expect to find a utility to change the device id...the best I was hoping for was an EEPROM I could reprogram via a parallel port programmer. Thanks for the device IDs, if I get crazy enough to hexedit the BIOS, that will help. Compaq uses a Phoenix BIOS as does IBM, but it's...
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    Thinkpad X series advice?

    Heh. On my Black Friday Toshiba (no antennas), I drilled a hole in the case for an RP-TNC connector, and I use external rubber ducky antennas. Works great. You can get the RP-TNC with pigtail from netgate.com.
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    I suspect the 2200BG does indeed have some sort of a serial EEPROM for the PCI device ID. The HP 2200BG is virtually identical to the Intel OEM part except for the PCI device id. Make sense that the device id would be in a seperate, programmable memory. I de-stickered a 2200BG that I have...
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