Perfect laptops [was: Is there an Archive for this list?]

[Bob Jonkman]

Leigh Honeywell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:22:24AM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>   
>> It seems that the Bluetooth radio isn't recognized at all -- when I 
>> select "System, Preferences, Bluetooth" I get an error message "No 
>> Bluetooth adapters present".
> A lot of Toshibas have a hardware switch for the bluetooth. At the 
> risk of asking the obvious, have you found it and turned it on? :)

:) yes...  I guess you had to ask.  They have machines to do that, 
though: http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/QpmLrz_lSuE


>> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P200D
>>     
> Are there any other letters in the model-number after the D?  

Its full name is P220D PSPBLC-01D08C  It was a custom build for Future 
Shop, and that model/sub-model number doesn't appear on the Toshiba 
Support site.


> This will help you confirm more exactly that
> it does for sure have bluetooth
>   

Bluetooth works successfully with my mouse(s), Cell phone and earphone 
when I'm using Windows.  Of course, that may just have been clever 
marketing by Microsoft.


I've been reading enough about the 'omnibook' module that I'm brave 
enough to try it.  I'll report back on results later.


--Bob.