Panasonic Toughbook Cf-20 Specs

[Minette Mccandrew]

Thead does not say if it got floppy or CD/DVD. I kind of hope for a floppy. Of course it will make things more complicated but it seems that it is possible to buy a CD/DVD from ebay. Then I could use CD to do the installation and then switch to the floppy. I got an old Thinkpad A31p with a working internal floppy that I run Debian on which is great fun.

Software and Memory

The Toughbook CF-28 operates on a Microsoft Windows XP or 2000 platform using a low-voltage,

Mobile Intel Pentium III M-Processor in either 1GHz or 800MHz. It includes a 30GB hard drive and

256MB of SDRAM memory that can be expanded up to 512MB. The 1.44MB floppy disk drive holds 3.5-inch

floppy disks and also accepts the optional DVD-ROM/CD-RW combination drive.

Just showing you the 512mb stick specs. 2 of those bumps you to one gig. The Pentium3 will be the browser choking point.

I added wireless N pcmcia and extra usb2 pcmcia cards to my panasonic. Had blue tooth going and everything.

Later on. We will tell you how to watch youtube on it. You might have to jump some hoops on that older hardware.

Perhaps a better choice would be to buy a Dell Latitude C510 C610 as very similar construction.

They share almost exactly the same specs except for the processors and the option for expanding RAM.

If you search the forum, you can find several posts with tricks to reduce RAM usage. Although I found most of these tricks to have rather marginal effects in the real world, they might just be what you need to make such a machine functional.

Yes; there is a much better solution than keep on buying more RAM if you are looking to speed things up a bit in real life :)

I have never seen the swap zone or got near the slow zone before going into swap.

Even when video editing :) AntiX-22 Full LXDE :)

Cheers

Listened to Andy above and installed XORG and LXDE. Took a while to configure XORG (never done it before) but now it works. Computer boots, lightdm starts, I can login to LXDE. Might use Openbox later on. Quite fun to configure if you like XML.

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