Re: Good Linux Laptop?

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/14/04

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    On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:16:05 -0800, Bill Waddington wrote:

    > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:52:14 -0500, General Schvantzkoph
    > <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:32:59 +0100, Kalevi Nyman wrote:
    >
    >>> Which laptop is a good choice for using Linux?
    >
    >>I have a Compaq R3000z AMD64 laptop which works fine with Fedora Core 2
    >>and 3 (both 32 bit and 64 bit versions) but not with Mandrake 10.1. If you
    >>want speed then the Athlon 64 is the only way to go. My benchmarking
    >>(doing Verilog simulation and FPGA place and routes) shows the Athlon 64
    >>3400+ in my laptop to be almost exactly twice the speed of my 2.66GHz
    >>Xeon, i.e. equivalent to a 5.2GHz Xeon if such a thing existed. It's
    >>also reasonably inexpensive, I paid around $1500 for an A64 3400+, 1G
    >>RAM, 60G disk, 802.11G wireless and XP Pro (I don't use XP much except
    >>for to download my GPS but I figured that since I had to buy a copy
    >>with this laptop I'd get the version that worked rather than XP home
    >>which has crippled networking). You'll find that a Centrino based laptop
    >>is much more expensive and it will be slower.
    >
    > General, this looks pretty good. How is the battery life?

    I never run laptops off of the battery so I don't know. There are two
    batteries available for the HP/Compaq laptops, the standard 8 cell battery
    and an optional 12 cell battery. I have the 12 cell battery, which in
    restrospect is another stupid choice that I made given that I don't run
    off of batteries. When I selected the bigger battery the only thing that I
    thought about was that is was only a few dollars more. I didn't think
    about weight which in hindsight is much more important.

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