Re: Laptop recomendation?
On Monday 03 January 2005 14:29, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:10 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > On Friday 31 December 2004 20:51, Mark M wrote:
> > > 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you
> > > should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or
> > > only for MSwindows? Is there anything else I really need to know (of
> > > course I will be installing debian on it).
> >
> > Yes, it's only for Windows, but it's also machine dependent. Some
> > machines don't use them.
>
> Hm, I always thought Windows uses hibernation files...
It always did in my personal experience, too, but I know of people with Dells
and, iirc, some Thinkpads, that had hibernate partitions.
> In any case, the hibernation partition might be needed by to BIOS to do
> a supend to disk. The older pre-ACPI phoenix BIOS did this for example.
Which would certainly explain Dell, who used a phoenix bios.
> But if you buy a new laptop, it will most likely have ACPI (where
> suspend to disk is managed by the OS rather the BIOS).
agreed.
> > > 3. Battery life: I am hoping to use the laptop for 2 things: 1. video
> > > editing/dvd burning from camera with firewire. 2. Using on longdistance
> > > flights (but not video editing). I guess for video/burning dvd's I want
> > > a fast processor eg the pentium M 3GHz. But for extended battery life I
> > > want a slower low power processor.
> >
> > No, you want a powerbook. PPCs _look_ slower if you only look at the
> > clock frequency, but they run much cooler and, generally, faster than
> > intels.
>
> Or a centrino (Pentium M).
A centrino will give him the battery life, but it won't be as good for video
work (assuming all the linux apps are available for ppc - maybe not...)
--
derek
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