On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:31 +0000, carmen wrote: > > I agree with Lee. My experience is that you cannot tell by a list of > > what's in the machine. You have to use it to find out. > > or build it. assembling your laptop is a the only way to not pay Microsoft for a copy of XP, and allows the opportunity to put in components you know there are open/free/good/working drivers for. check out the barebones notebooks from ASUS and MSI.. > Even if you build it you have no idea if it will be usable for low latency until you try it. There's no way to know ahead of time that a machine does not have the ACPI/SMM bug for example. Lee
