Re: [SLE] Laptop choice

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 08/01/04

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    BandiPat wrote:
    > On Saturday 31 July 2004 11:04 pm, James Knott included these bytes:
    > [...]
    >
    >>>The simple thing to do would be to download the SuSE 9.1 Live CD
    >>>and burn the iso to a disc. Take it to the store with you and try
    >>>it on any laptop you are interested in to see how well it works.
    >>>That should give you a reasonably good idea of what you are
    >>>getting.
    >>>
    >>>Lee
    >>
    >>Not necessarily. That Live CD failed on 3 of 3 computers that I
    >>tried it on, including my ThinkPad, which runs SuSE 9.1 Pro very
    >>well.
    >>
    >>All of those 3 computers were also able to run the 9.0 Live Eval.
    >
    > ===========
    >
    > I should think that all the newer machines could handle the 2.88 disk
    > image thing. That seems to be the biggest problem James. I don't know
    > how new or old yours are and I had one system here I couldn't get it to
    > run on, but my newer system worked just grand.
    >
    > Lee

    While one of those was an older K6, my Thinkpad (P3) and home (Athlon XP
    1700+) systems are both a bit over 2 years old. The failures were at
    different points, but all well after the initial boot. 

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