[PLUG] Linux-friendly notebook

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Oct 12 15:29:02 UTC 2003


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, AthlonRob wrote:

> Anyway - the CPUs are amazing when it comes to power consumption.  They
> are, however, slower than just about anything you can buy today, in actual
> performance.  If you think you'll do a lot of compiling, any 3D gaming, or
> other CPU-intensive tasks on it, go with an Intel or AMD.  If you'll not
> be doing very much of that stuff, it'll work great for you, at a great
> amount of battery life savings.  Get a faster hard drive and you'll get a
> bigger boost in day-to-day application speeds.

Rob,

  Oops! Then it's the wrong processor for me. I'll be doing devlopment work
on it, running spatial and approximate reasoning models and doing other
compute-intesive tasks. That's why the faithful ol' Portege won't do me for
several more years.

  OK. Back to the drawing board. The linux-on-laptop site has reports on
putting linux on various boxes, but no comparisons among the hardware.

Thanks very much,

Rich

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