Re: Laptop recommendations?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (23/04/05 13:35), Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is possibly OT for this list, and if so, please forgive me.  My old
> laptop is dying aslow death, and I am looking for a new one.  I am
> interested in trying the amd64 line, but I have no idea of the level of
> support, or even fully the issues involved (pure 64 vs. 32/64 bit modes,
> etc).  IIRC the Debian port provides a pure 64 bit environment, which is
> great, except that perhaps things like ndiswrapper will no longer work
> for unsupported wireless cards, I would think.
> 
> Can anyone please (off-list, if people feel it is OT) provide me with
> links or information about the support levels, pros and cons, and perhaps
> a recommendation for well supported laptops?  I would very much
> appreciate any information.
Acers seem to be reasonably well supported - I've got an Aspire 1524WLMi
on which most things worked 'out of the box'

Things I've not explored:
Sleep/ suspend / powermanagement /cpu temp control 
WIFI

I use it more as a portable workstation than a laptop - it's only got a
2 hour battery life.

But it is great to work on with the wide-screen 1280X800 res

Regards

Clive

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