Re: OT: laptop choice
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 2011/9/29 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>:
> > As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows
> > for the moment) and Asus.
>
> You should really keep windows on your toshiba for the moment. I had
> to return mine after 6 month of using debian/stable. ACPI support is
> just terrible, cooling fans were running 24/7.
>
> Ref:
> http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba/Satellite%20L670-1JN/Squeeze
My previous Toshiba laptop (L305 series with H20 BIOS IIRC)
was terrible under Linux, it would often trigger thermal
shutdown before it finished booting!
Yeah, I could have modified the init scripts to throttle
the CPU early.
Once it booted, it ran okay with the CPU locked at 1GHz.
Happy with my Thinkpad T410 i5, although getting the wifi
driver to work was (a medium level of) hellish.
--
Joel Roth
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