[PLUG] Linux-friendly notebook

[AthlonRob]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:27, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   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.

You know... all the info I have on them is with Windows.

My understanding of the Transmeta processors is they are essentially non
x86 CPUs emulating x86 instruction sets.  That's where the performance
drain comes from.

So, perhaps, with Linux's multi-architecture setup, the case is a little
bit different for Linux than for Windows?

Although I don't think you'll be able to achieve the performance level
you'll get with a nice Intel or AMD chip.  If you want the laptop to
last, I'd maybe see if I could find one of the Athlon64-based models
that are just now entering the market.  If you went with one of those,
new software will start to run faster on it than on a 32-bit chip
instead of newer software running slower than older software... as
things get ported to x86-64.

Rob