Xeron Sonic Movie M11A

Bady e2.bady at gmail.com
Fri May 13 12:43:15 UTC 2005


Wow HP is wonderfull more Laptop for lesser money :) and the dollar is
not as much worth as the Euro right now so I can buy alot of laptop
for my money..... :) Yust gotta hope that they ship to germany........
thx to everybody oh yeah Jay do you ship international?

thx

Bady

On 5/13/05, Jay Scherrer <jay at scherrer.com> wrote:
> Soory for the blurb,
> (I just Couldn't resist)
> I can custom build from ASUS white boxes.
> You are in control of the box. Up to three year warranty on the
> hardware. If you want Linux pre-installed, I will install to your
> specifications. Generous discounts on Quantity orders.
> I've been running Fedora core 3 x86_64 on my ASUS Z8100 DVD 80gig hd 1
> gig mem for months now. cost USD $1300 + shipping.
> Price references:
> <http://jay.scherrer.com/text/product.htm> notebooks
> Drop shipping available.
> 
> Jay Scherrer
> Scherrer Company
> <jay at scherrer.com>
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:23 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > On 5/12/05, Bady <e2.bady at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ok I posted this at linuxquestions.org but obviously nobody know there
> > > because nobody is writing me back :( so I'm asking here:
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=322199
> > >
> > > Ok I was thinking about buying a new Notebook. Mainly to Work, Game,
> > > and do my school work(CAD, Programming). I found this notebook from
> > > Xeron and I thought it is a pretty cool notebook for a decent price.
> > > The only thing I'm kinda worried about is the graphic card, but as I
> > > read in this forum this won't be a big problem.
> > >
> > > Mobile AMD Mobile Athlon 64™ 3400+
> > > 128 MB ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 (M11)
> > > 2GB RAM
> > > 100GB (5400rpm)
> > > DVD/CDRW Combo
> > >
> > > But for nearly 2050 Euros($2665) this is a lot of money for a student
> > > and so I want to make sure my Vector Linux(Based on Slackware) will
> > > work and I will be able to run Quake 4 and some other new games....
> >
> > If you want an AMD64 laptop, I highly recommend the Compaq Presario
> > R4000 series:
> >
> > http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=R4000_series&catLevel=2&category=notebooks/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_store
> >
> > With the hardware maxed out, it's still under $2000 (USD).  I have an
> > R3000Z (it's predecessor) and it runs very well.  Unfortunately, for
> > the R4000 HP decided to go with an ATi card (the R3000 has an nVidia
> > GF4 440 Go), so you might run into the same difficulties there.  The
> > 100 GB disk is 4200 rpm instead of 5400; you could go with the 80 GB
> > 5400 if speed is more important than space (I'd recommend it).  You
> > can get 2 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, and an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (I think
> > a socket 939 too, so dual channel memory).  I've never heard of Xeron,
> > but the Compaq looks like a better computer for less.
> >
> > There are some Linux issues, though.  The wireless is a Broadcom
> > chipset, so no native support.  It works great with ndiswrapper and
> > the 64-bit windows driver, but there seems to be issues with that
> > driver and having > 1 GB or RAM.  Of course, the ATi card is a
> > concern.  It certainly won't work out-of-the-box.  There is a great
> > user base for the R3000, though, and there are some people trying out
> > the R4000 now on this list:
> > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
> > So you wouldn't be alone in trying to troubleshoot things.
> >
> > > thx in advance
> > >
> > > And than my second question:
> > >
> > > Is anyone using the Sandisk Mp3 PLayer(1GB)? I was thinking about
> > > buying this one... will it run without me having trouble?
> >
> > Don't know anything about this one, sorry.
> >
> > > thx
> > >
> > > Bady
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> 
> 


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