Need new (cheap) notebook

[Jerry Feldman]

On 05/03/2010 03:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> More things are acting up on my 4 year old HP nc2400, so I am looking at 
> alternatives.
>
> The NC2400 is REALLY a notebook, measuring 8.5" x 11" closed and having 
> a 12" screen.  But it is old bios and somethings do not seem to work right.
>
> I guess the target OS is F12/13 with battery life ~8 hours.  60Gb of 
> disk is enough, and probaby 2Gb of memory (that is what I have now).
>
> One other consideration is I HATE thumb pads; no control.  I prefer the 
> 'eraser head' that my HP has (and I have had on all of my notebooks 
> since IBM invented it).
>
> Any experience/recommendations?
>   
You may want to check to make sure that your new system supports
hardware virtualization. While all AMD chips have hardware
virtualization, not on Intel chips do, and even when the CPU chip
supports it, the BIOS does not.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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