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    Whooo Hoo My 18 is here!

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Little Truck, May 23, 2009.

  1. Little Truck

    Little Truck Notebook Enthusiast

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    Where to begin....? !!! It is a CF-18DDAZAMM

    I gotta say I am stoked, this thing is a GPS/Digitizer model and it even has every cover and every door and is a decent looking machine.

    Whats the button on the stylus for? Is that a button or a method of keeping the stylus in the monitor pocket?
    I charged for a few hours today while it was off and after it has been on for about 15 minutes it shows 3:59 hours remaining..is that good? (Actually its still going up?) :) :) :D

    (Forgive the ignorance to follow but I have been on a mac for some time now and made it a point to forget as much about redmond as possible)

    Before I do anything I want to make my own restore disk, this seems to have the correct Panasonic version on it so I want to ghost it or burn a restore USB hard drive or DVD disk. So I would ask if anyone has any tips or links on the best way to copy this so if my drive dies and I can rebuild from another HD or a DVD drive. Can Tablet XP make one for me?
     
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  2. f4ding

    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    OO I thought you just turned 18. Nice machine BTW.
     
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  3. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    D E L L people... Morons....

    The button is for all sorts of things... If you need a manual... Let me know.

    The digitizer is cool as it senses the stylus coming to it. The button on the stylus can be a right or left click (I think you can change it in the settings along with other behaviors.) so you can drag and drop without or by just barely touching the screen. I'm sure it also has other applications depending on the software.
     
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  4. Little Truck

    Little Truck Notebook Enthusiast

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    Acronis! It turns out I had an older copy on my server and it made an image to another hard drive lickity split!

    I purchased one of these for $10 on ebay and it makes for a great tool to have around.

    [​IMG]

    It lets me re-use those old smaller hard drives and DVD drives.
     
    Little Truck, May 24, 2009
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  5. deluxe

    deluxe Notebook Enthusiast

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    So, what are the best search terms to use on Ebay to find the adapter: ie; what's it called??
    Thanks
     
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  6. Little Truck

    Little Truck Notebook Enthusiast

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    Do a ebay search for this...

    New USB 2.0 to SATA IDE Cable Adapter For 2.5 3.5 HDD
     
    Little Truck, May 24, 2009
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  7. ohlip

    ohlip Toughbook Modder

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    Just to make sure you obtain an IDE type harddrive when time come to change the harddrive not SATA. Cf-18 uses IDE type harddrive. Good Luck.


    ohlip
     
    ohlip, May 24, 2009
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