Re: Choosing Hardware
Richard Hector wrote:
> One of my main concerns is keeping at least my hardware drivers Free -
> I'd rather not have firmware blobs either, but I can tolerate those if I
> have to. I can also tolerate drivers that aren't in the standard kernel,
> but again I'd rather not if possible.
You may want to look at older laptops rather than newer laptops. In
general after hardware has been around a year or so problems have been
worked around. It is usually the brand new hardware that has issues.
Frankly for me there is little difference in useful performance and
features between the latest bleeding edge and the trusty proven two
year old models. There is obviously difference but I say useful
difference because for me the latest hotest machines were not more
advantageous over an older long battery life machine. YMMV but this
is certainly something to think about.
> the local one I'm looking at seems to have Intel wireless, while others
> I've seen in howtos have Broadcom. Anybody know if these are any good?
Warning! Broadcom wifi is right now completely without native linux
driver support. I would avoid it explicitly until that changes. They
seem to be completely uninterested in supporting FLOSS drivers.
Bob
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