FireWire?

There's one pretty confusing message box when you use the ``extreme long battery life'' setting in the ``Power Saver'' control panel under the preinstalled Windows, and use the laptop on battery power. It's got a title saying ``IEEE 1394'', while the text of the message box is a question asking something about some devices being shut down, and whether or not you agree on that.

This may lead one to think that there's some FireWire-hardware in this laptop, since IEEE 1394 is the document that describes that standard. There's no FireWire in this laptop, though. I suppose this is some bug in Windows (big surprise, there): the message refers to the network card being shut down.

Oh well, why not.



Wouter Verhelst 2004-02-04