“…after your nervous breakdown and before the credit card bill
arrives, there is something really wonderful about a great laptop.
It may have cost more then a nice used car, but you can’t take a
car into a restaurant either. Knowing that you are carrying around
enough computing power to cause a gadget freak from ten years ago
to pass out is a pleasure that extends beyond pure geekdom: anyone
can understand it.”
“The TuxTops Obsidian is exactly that sort of machine.
As close to a no-compromise laptop as you can buy, it combines
battery life, performance, display and video capabilities and even
ergonomics in a package that will make most people happy–if
anything will. Most importantly, every TuxTops laptop comes with
Linux pre-installed. Yeah, that other desktop OS is available,
but Linux is the main deal here.”
“The TuxTops Obsidian is a top-of-the-line laptop, and the test
unit was configured to prove it. Start with a 650/500MHz SpeedStep
Pentium III, 256 Megabytes of RAM, an 18 gigabyte hard drive, 8MB
ATI Rage mobility LT video chip set, 6 speed DVD drive, a 15-inch
1024×768 display and all of the usual features like sound, dual
PC-CARD/Cardbus slots, a floppy drive, a built-in Lucent Winmodem,
IrDA, serial and parallel ports, a port replicator connector for
desktop use and more, most of which are ready to use the first time
the system boots into Linux.”