Re: [linuxiran] laptop

[Aryan Ameri]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 13:53, ocean wrote:
> I have seen a few models and I found one laptop
> seeming good on my budget! It's a compaq presario 2532
> 2.66M( that's what the seller guy said!) 512MB ram,
> DVD RW,15.1TFT, 40 GB of Hard, probably a winmodem...
> What's ur opinion?

The spec is impressive. However it seems the Presario 2500 series don't 
love Linux that much. a couple of reports 

http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jac/deliverables/htmls/
redhat9oncompaq2500.html

http://www.akiaki.org/linux/presario.2500.HOWTO.html


Also, do you really need a DVD RW? (BTW is it DVD+RW or DVD-RW, cause 
these two are different). If you are not into making movies, I advice 
you save a couple of dollars and get a combo drive instead.

However, if you backup/archive your drives regularly, using a DVD as a 
backup tool might be appropriate.

> By the way u mentioned Desktop Processors for laptops!
> Does Toshiba get this from that Desknote thing they
> created in India?(Correct me if I'm wrong!)


I don't know anything about desknote. What I know is that some producers 
are using regular deskopt processors in their notebooks to bring the 
price down. Try not to use them. If a processor says Pentium-M or 
Pentium Mobile, it's OK. If it is just a pentium, then I suspect that's 
a desktop processor.

> Again thanx to all of u for taking a time answering my
> questions!


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Aryan Ameri