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.
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