Certified Linux Laptop

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Sep 1 04:13:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 23:22, Darren Grant wrote:
> I'm using a Dell 600M as well. Works great with FC2. My only concern is 
D600.. Same issues..
Suspend to Disk and just currently, but not very much tested is Suspend
to Disk works.

Gaming.. I've never got America's Army/Unreal Tournament to work on it.

> that I got it with the ATI Radeon M9 card... and it just seems there's 
> overall less support in the linux gaming community for ATI.  For 
> instance... cedega (winex) has all kinds of posts and complaints about 
> support for ATI, and whilte it's on their to-do list (which you can vote 
> for)... there's no date set for when they're going to work on it.   I 
> upgraded from an Inspiron 8000 which I had running FC1... but it had an 
> nVidia video card and there just seemed to be less work involved in 
> gaming.  So if you had the choice, I'd go with the nVidia card, even 
> though I really do like ATI. But just my opinion and if you don't game 
> alot...
> 
> Everything else works nicely... including the ipw2100 card.
> 
> -Darren
> 
> Lotsa Cabo wrote:
> 
> > I am looking to purchase a new laptop to use for Linux development on 
> > FC2. My requirements are...
> >
> > >= 1.5 GHz
> > >= 1.0 GB
> > >= 60 GB HD
> > >= 1200 x 1024 NATIVE resolution
> > CD-RW/DVD-ROM (minimum)
> > Wireless (11Mb or 54Mb), 10/100/1000 NIC, sound, USB 2.0, PCMCIA
> > Bluetooth would be nice
> > Flawless functionality with FC2 and/or RH9
> >
> > Any "tried and true" suggestions?
> >
> > Thanx,
> > Ryan
> >
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Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.8.1.Aug.29 
Neuromancer 12:12:13 up 4:00, 6 users, load average: 1.41, 1.00, 0.83 





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