Hi, El sáb, 23-04-2005 a las 19:12 +0100, Clive Menzies escribió: > 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. > > > Acers seem to be reasonably well supported - I've got an Aspire 1524WLMi > on which most things worked 'out of the box' I'm using an eMachines M6805 and it works pretty good now, after a problematic beginning more than a year ago. Since then the kernel and their BIOS has been fixed to support Linux and Windows XP SP2. However, I don't think you can get one of those anymore. > Things I've not explored: > Sleep/ suspend / powermanagement /cpu temp control > WIFI Powernowd works here. WiFi, too, using the Broadcom 64-bit driver via ndiswrapper. > 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 Same here * 2. Greetings, -- Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net> ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802 Jabber: jkohen@jabber.org
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