Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?

[duncan brown]

some people would fiercely debate your statement about liking their products and the quality of said products, but that's not what i'm going to write about =]

if your laptop is a p4 with hyperthreading and you're booting the SMP kernel, there's a known bug in FC1 (and probably other distros) where the SMP kernel will not boot properly.  if this is the case for you, have you tried the non-SMP kernel?

-d


----- Original Message -----
From: Caleb Rodriguez <calebsr2k at acm.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:54:19 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?

> Yes, try not to purchase a Sony. I did and several distros failed to 
> boot. I like Sony products, but their laptops do not seem to support 
> Linux as well.
> 
> MacGyver
> 
> 
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: WipeOut [mailto:wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net]
> >>Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:03 PM
> >>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >>Subject: Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I just sold my old Laptop and so I am now looking for a new one..
> >>    
> >>
> >Mee Too..
> > 
> >  
> >
> >>Is there anything to stay away from that has major issues with FC or 
> >>Linux in general?
> >>    
> >>
> >Modems. 56K that is.. Unless you have broadband, so that's a non-issue.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Issues with built in WiFi?
> >>    
> >>
> >Working. Ndiswrapper.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Are Centrino's any good? It seems like they have taken a step 
> >>backwards and lowered the processor speed..
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >In some cases, the extra cache makes thing faster. eg: During video
> >encoding, I compare (not apple to apple) on a D600 1.4G 512Ram vs
> >2.4G P4 512M Ram (desktop). FPS using Helix Producer gets me like 
> >11-12 FPS vs 10-11 FPS  on the desktop
> >
> >So.. you be the judge.
> >
> >Oh.. and Battery life if it's anything to you, the D600's Batt life 
> >sucks. 2:30 hours on a 6 cell.
> >
> >:(
> >
> >check-out tuxmobil.org to look at the laptops you're interested in.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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