On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:48:20PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > *nod* Also, the Intel "Extreme" graphics chips have decent Linux > support, as I understand it, and that is the new budget chip in IBM > laptops. 3d support? i'd happily go with anything with nice open support. 3d is just for toys (a game or 2 or screensavers), but it's nice to have a bit of glitz when people see a linux laptop. :) > > what about acpi support? > I can't say, since my A31p and the R40 laptops we used all had good, > solid APM support, so I never really bothered with ACPI. :) [snip] > I get the feeling that it is reasonably good from postings on the > Thinkpad hardware list, but APM still works well, and I still use it > happily. :) i jumped to acpi from years of apm use to invert the power management model -- let the OS control and implement reactions to events, like suspend. swsusp is much faster than bios s2d, and it uses my swap, so it doesn't waste space needing a special suspend partition. > I have a P4m-1.8 processor. Sure, it takes me ten minutes to compile a > kernel but, day to day, I get wonderful performance out of the hardware. > A faster CPU just wouldn't make that much difference to me, while a 24 > hour turn-around on replacing a failing hard disk, including IBM sending > it to me by courier so I had *zero* downtime, is worth quite a bit.[1] i'd like to try to spring for the most processor i can afford just to keep the machine more useful longer. too be honest, i'm still working nicely at 600mhz, but the rest of the machine is failing. support is a good point, plus finding parts on ebay is a plus! i might have to think real hard about the ibm. do they have any machines designed for linux, meaning all the cool built-ins (nic, wlan, bluetooth, sound) definitely work with linux? this is where i may do better with a refurb or used machine, i guess. -- ____________________}John Flinchbaugh{______________________ | glynis@hjsoft.com http://www.hjsoft.com/~glynis/ | ~~Powered by Linux: Reboots are for hardware upgrades only~~
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