I thought I had blogged this photo before, but here is a great shot of my Fujitsu P1120 showing how small it is. This is a photo of it sitting on a mousepad.

I started surfing the web for “bible covers” and “bible organizers” and was amazed at all the different styles you can get! (remember, I’m looking because they make perfect cases for my laptop.)

Camo… denim… bright colors… fine leather… and tons more. For sure, they vary in size. When I was at the book store today, many were TOO big for my tiny laptop. But get out the tape measure and grab yourself a really awesome case/tote/sleeve/bag for your P1120. =:D

So then I was in Books-A-Million and they had this BIBLE case. I got an idea. So I started playing around w/ the different sizes, and BAM! A nice leather “bible case” fits Ike JUST PERFECTLY! It’s leather so it’s a bit cushion-y.

But it’s got this cross on it. Now, I’m not against Jesus or christianity, but I AM sick to death of the turbo christians here in the south and I IN NO WAY want any southern turbo-christians to look at me and go “ohhhh, she’s my sister!” NOT!!!!!

So I’ll be putting my vampire patch over that cross. I feel evil, but I’m not. It’s just that in THIS town, you bear a cross and it says WAY more than, a) it used to, and b) what it might say in other areas of the country/world.

I’ve had it w/ the southern turbo-christians and I will not bear any of their icons. They stole jesus and the cross from me.

(funny, there’s a GREAT book called “Stealing Jesus“.)

UPDATE 1: Will add pix of new “laptop” case later.

UPDATE 2: I told M: “I shoulda got one of those tacky Thomas Kinkade EMBROIDERED bible cases, then NOBODY would steal the laptop!”

UPDATE 3: Ok, I uploaded pix of my new “bible”/laptop case:
http://www.laserblog.com/gallery/00shared/BibleLaptopCase/
It’s black leather (or fake leather, I don’t know) w/ a cross branded in it. I’m going to put a patch over that.

It’s one of those bags that can be worn w/ the strap across the chest so it can’t be grabbed easily, and it’s unisex. It’s a great bag: it has lots of pockets and zippers as well as slots for business or credit cards.

Here are some pix of just how well that bag fits this laptop:
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This bag is black and on the front it says “Samsonite” in white lettering, but I put a Hello Kitty patch over that part. You can leave yours black or put your own patch over the logo.

UPDATE: Ok, I got the info on this bag. For those of you who have this laptop, this bag is GREAT for it. It’s a Royal Traveller EXCUSRION BAG “by Samsonite”, Model number RT0063BK, bar code number 21276 98263. Like I said, I got it at Office Max although I did not see it on their website, but they had it in the store today. Here are photos of what to look for in the store: http://www.laserblog.com/gallery/00shared/p1120bag/
Oh yeah, and it’s only $20.00

Now that I’ve had my Fujitsu P1120 for a while now, I have to say, I still LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I fell in love w/ it when I first got it, well, before I got it I fell in love w/ it. But having it is just beyond words wonderful. I have no life, I know. But this laptop is just too cute. It’s so small and light I take it literally everywhere I go. People come up to me in cafes and ask “Is that a real computer?” I tell them yes, it’s a full computer running full Windows XP. People have me write down the model number so that they can look into buying one (my sushi chef bought one after seeing mine). You get over the tiny keyboard so fast it’s hardly a drawback. It’s about 2 pounds, even w/ the extended-life battery. It has built-in WiFi and a touchscreen. The only thing that would make this better would be if it had built-in bluetooth and was a tiny bit faster. If I were rich, I’d buy a second one, and maybe even a third one, and leave it unpacked, and put away for when this one gets old.

I always thought that as a laptops got old and things broke you could just replace parts. But I have this huge Gateway laptop w/ a screen larger than a 17″ monitor’s screen, and it’s great (but dog-heavy!). As it aged, things broke, but they could not be replaced. The battery died. I ordered a new battery, and within a week, the battery was dead. The floppy drive died, and so I ordered a new one, and within a few weeks that drive was dead, too. So, replacing parts is obviously not a solution.

So, when my P1120 gets old and starts to die, what will I do? Technology gets better and better but that doesn’t mean that what you want will be available. The general public may decide that tiny laptops aren’t worth the trouble, and companies worried about the bottom line may stop making them, but lil’ ol’ me will still want one. I swear, if I get one more big sale in my business, I may buy another one and put away for later. I really do love this laptop that much.

I want to put Linux on my Fujitsu P1120 laptop but I’m not sure which distro would be best.

It’s tiny (footprint no bigger than a mousepad) and has no cd-rom drive. I have an external cdrom drive so I can install from a cd, but since it’s an external drive I don’t want to use a cd-bootable distro.

It’s an 800mhz Crusoe chip,
256 memory
30gig hd

It also has a touch-screen which others have gotten to work under linux:
http://www.interstice.com/journals/Simon/20030911.html
http://hamsterrepublic.com/james/linux/lifebook-p1000.php

This laptop is a bit pokey running XP… (things like a new browser takes a few seconds to open, drop-down menus take a second or two to drop down, etc.) …and so I’d like to install a nice, LEAN distro of linux to see if it performs better under linux.

But I don’t know which distro would be good. Surfing, reading, looking…

P.S. … and it has to be relatively easy to install since I’m a linux newbie.

Today we went to Tar-jay and then a coffee house, which to my happiness had wifi available. We weren’t there long enough to surf, but u bet I’ll be back next week. My favorite coffee house has no wifi and that sucks.

While at the coffee house, M discovered in a Circuit City ad in the newspaper, a little Kensington WiFi Finder keychain. (kinda big for a keychain) So we flew outta there to get to Circuit City before they closed and picked it up. It’s neato nifty-keen! So now I can find leaky wifi without having to be booted up. Warwalking, here I come!

For some reason my new Fujitsu P1120 is crashing our wireless access point. It’s the strangest thing. We did a firmware upgrade and it’s still doing it. The thing just dies and has to be unplugged then plugged back in. It’s a real bitch, especially after deciding that we ought to have a lan party soon. I hope we can fix this problem.

I bought it because it is so tiny and lightweight. I already have a very good, very heavy, Gateway laptop w/ a huge screen, but it’s weight makes it a pain to bring anywhere (and hurts my joints when it’s on my lap and I put my feet up).

This laptop is so small it can fit in a medium-sized purse. Without the battery I think it’s about 1 pound 7 ounces according to my kitchen scale. It’s advertised as 2.1 pounds if I remember right, but w/ my extended-life battery it’s about 2 pounds 7 ounces with the battery in.

I opted for the optional high-capacity battery for extended life (it replaces the standard battery) for $59, and I actually like the little .5 – .75 inch extension that the high-capacity battery adds to the front of the machine as it provides a nice place to rest your wrists while you type.

In my case, the external floppy drive was included for free. I did not buy the optional external pc-card cd-rom drive, because I found it to be overpriced at $134. I found one at TigerDirect.com for $79 and ended up getting one off ebay for $38.

It comes w/ a spare “eraser heads” as I call them, the little pointer that sits between the GHB keys, but it does not come w/ spare rubber feet and I must say that after putting this tiny laptop in and out of a bag twice, one of the feet (rubber pads) already popped off. So beware that they are not on as securely as they could be. (But the foot went right back on and has not come off again.)

Because it’s so little, the keyboard it tight. I have girly fingers, so it’s not too bad of a problem although I tend to make the same typos over and over (which leads me to believe that it’s just a matter of time before the learning curve kicks in and I stop doing that). I have trouble finding backspace, slash, comma, period, and I keep hitting up-arrow instead of shift. But I am sure that this can be overcome w/ time, anything is learnable. [[Update: after just one more day I can type like wildfire w/ very few typos.]] If you have big, manly fingers, you may find the keyboard too small. Average-sized guy hands do not find the keyboard prohibitively small.

The touchscreen is a great feature and there is a stylus but I mainly use my fingernail.

The speakers are horrible but let me tell you, plug in a set of headphones/earphones, and you can’t even test maximum volume without hurting your ears. The sound w/ headphones is amazing. (I have the Sony earbud style earphones that sit in your ear and wrap up into a wind-up case.)

I plugged in a USB mouse and it didn’t require any setup at all. That may be more to Windows XP’s credit, but still, it makes for an easy-to-set up laptop.

I use the wireless LAN capability alot at home. I wish it had built-in bluetooth, but a simple USB bluetooth adapter works just fine. I wish it had FireWire.

The screen is bright and crisp. I can’t even handle it at it’s brightest, which may mean that in bright light it’s good, although I have not tried that yet. It’s way brighter than my gateway laptop. Even w/ the P1120 set to 6 out of 8 brightness, if I then switch to my Gateway laptop, the Gateway display seems really dim at it’s brightest.

I do admit that I’d like program windows to open faster, drop-down menus to show up faster, so I suppose it could be faster in general, but it’s pros WAY outweigh the drawback of it being a tiny bit slow.

When I ordered mine, my confirmation email from Fujitsu said that I recieved a free trial of T-Mobile Hot Spot WiFi service, which means that if any coffee houses (or whatever) in my area had T-Mobile WiFi, I could use it for a free trial period. This is actually really great except I live in a one-horse town and can’t use it because there aren’t any T-mobile hot spots. You can go to http://www.t-mobile.com/hotspot/ and see if there are any in your area. Honestly, T-mobile is a brand name so there are probably many places in my town or your town where you can use NON T-Mobile WiFi.

Bottom line, I am in LOVE w/ this thing and would recommend it to anyone!