FC5 on AMD Turion 64?

[Vini Engel]

> The biggest issues with laptops in my experience are power management and 
> wireless support. Graphics, disks and so on have never given me an issue. 

I agree on the power management side but not the wireless. Perhaps I 
would have to work more to get the wireless working but that is not a 
problem. I have a Sony VAIO and it seems that the power management works 
as fine on Linux. I will do some testing...

> A friend of mine has one - power management in general sucks and enabling 
> cool'n'quiet makes the box behave really weird. That means that the battery 
> that lasts like 3 hours in windows lasts about 1:15 in linux. 
> I have a compaq presario R3000Z mobile athlon64 based laptop that has pretty 
> much the same issue. 

Is you Athlon64 faster than a P4 or not really?

> Now I'm running a few different Core Duo ones (Dell E1705 and similar). Works 
> flawless there. 

How fast is this Duo?

> Out of all the companies - why the <insert random curse here> would you want a 
> HPQ laptop? starting with whitelists in the bios to the horrible bios update 
> support, there isn't really a single good thing I can say about HPQ laptops. 
> Go to linux-on-laptops.com and check out some random HPQ laptops and see all 
> the things that people complain about. The list there also has a few turion64 
> models. 

I will check the web site out. The reason which I am looking at HPQ is 
pricing. They have the screen I want and their price is reasonable good 
specially on Turion CPUs.

Regards,
Vini