PC Hardware Req./Suggestions

[gorgarath]

What would you say is required of a laptop to be able to flash phones? Is a faster laptop really any faster than a slower one? I'd imagine the largest bottleneck would be the speed of the COM/LPT ports which are pretty much just as fast on anything newer.

That being said, what would you recommend for a laptop to work with phones?

I'm thinking of picking up a "new" PII around 300/350MHZ, tossing in at least 256MB RAM, and dropping a copy on 98SE or 2000 on it.

Any reccomendations or suggestions on anything else I have to/should include?

Sincerely,
Gorgarath

[Alinus]

P III at 800 mhz and 256 or 512 ram is best.

speed is same on com and lpt on most pc's...but some motherboards have the possiblility for faster speed on com's

[marky752000]

Becarefull as some laptop's won't flash phone's

Some will only if they are plugged into the mains

and other will without any problems

I have a older Dell the will eaither way and a newer Dell C600 that will only flash when plugged into the mains.


Just somehing to bare in mind

Best Regards

Mark

[gorgarath]

I have a older Dell the will eaither way
Do you have the model of the older Dell that works on batery and mains?

@Alinus: Yeah, if I had the spare money to drop to get something that phat, I might. I could get a desktop with those specs, but finding a laptop like that probabally ain't going to happen for the budget I'm looking at.

Thanks,
Gorgarath

[gorgarath]

Actually, might be getting a Dell CPx. PIII 650 w/ 128MB RAM. And I have a 256MB chip from my dead laptop. Almost hits your specs Alinus.

Now I just gotta hope no one outbids me. :D

-Gorgarath

[gorgarath]

Bah, I hate people that outbid me on eBay. *lol* I need an advance on my life's savings I think.

[gorgarath]

Is a P3 definitly neccisary to flash phones in a timely manner?
Or would a P2 ~300MHz be enough?

Either way it will be stacked with at least 384MB of RAM.
Would that do it?

Sometimes I really hate rich people who outbid me on eBay. :mad:

Sincerely,
Gorgarath

[sunwukong]

basically i would say good amt of ram and serial port, since most USB cable cannot flash

[gorgarath]

I'm looking to save up some cash from my next couple of paychecks, and if my girl doesn't spend it on me, buy an Armada M300. I'll need that USB port though for power I'm thinking. Unless I try to pull power from the PS/2 port. USB is the better choice as far as I can tell, but I'm probabally not getting one until after the 1st and possibly not till Feb. if I can manage to not buy one before hand. I'll stick to my PC till then.

Thanks to those that helped. I'll still accept more ideas if anyone has any.

Sincerely,
Gorgarath

[gorgarath]

Actually, I may be rethinking the M300. Still not sure. I need something with full carbus support and preferabally full ACPI support for FreeBSD. It's a pain laptops are made mostly to run Microsoft. I'll have to keep looking for a good FreeBSD laptop. M300 looks nice, but not sold on it yet. It meets my specs and almost meets Alinus's specs, and as far as I can tell, meets any memory requirement anyone can come up with. I could get a PII 266MHz and probabally flash just as well as a P4 1GHz. The UART is just as much a bottleneck on the P4 as the PII.

I'll drop another line sometime to let all you mostly uninterested people what it is. :rolleyes: ;)

Cheers,
Gorgarath

[manchildbb]

Not all laptops are made to run Microsoft. For a while now Dell have been selling Laptops with Linux on them. I know someone who bought one last year.

[gorgarath]

True, but generally speaking, laptops are designed with windows in mind.

-G.