[PLUG] Re: It was not my destiny to own a Compaq notebook with Linux

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri May 27 17:53:23 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:35 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Considering what I went through with the R4000 and now this, I can only 
> conclude that I was not meant to own an Athlon-64 notebook with Linux. 
> <sigh>

May I ask why you want an Athlon 64 so badly?  They might be the best
performance for your money, but they're very new--new enough that I
haven't had my hands on any.  While Linux has been on 64-bit platforms
for a decade or so, they've been supported by distros mainly as a server
platform and generally something of a second-class citizen to ia32.

Add that to the fact that laptops themselves, with their dizzying array
of specialized hardware, have themselves been second-class citizens;
compound further the fact that you yourself are a neophyte and you have
a recipe for disaster.

Why not a nice Pentium M system with an ATI video chipset and Orinoco
wireless?

Wil
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