[Leaplist] Laptop Hardware Advice

[Damien McKenna]

Todd Davenport wrote:
> Can anyone out there give me a pointer to the correct
> hdd to buy?  All I know is EIDE, I'm not up on this
> Serial ATA/Ultra ATA/SATA stuff.
>   

IDE, EIDE and Ultra-ATA are all different names for the same thing - 
parallel ATA (I've known of computer store employees who didn't know 
that).  As a result, any 2.5" drive you could find that says any of 
those names on it will work.  And I checked, your laptop does use 
parallel ATA drives.

Damien