On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:00 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 01:34 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB > > RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full > > Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment > > Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos > > & Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some > > of my office applications > > If it's CentOS you're interested in, you're on the wrong list. But I > bought a fairly new Asus laptop at the end of last year, and just about > everything works on it (haven't tried firewire, the multi-card reader > only manages to read SD-RAM cards, the webcam isn't usable). Using > Ubuntu on the same laptop, the webcam does work. Whatever happened to the "lunchboxes", that used much cheaper standard gear inside, with a built-in LED screen and a fold down almost REAL keyboard? Cheap to fix, just a huge honking battery to add to the weight was the only real issue. Anyone using one successfully? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
