Mark Knecht wrote: > Dave, > I own one but have never set Linux up on it. I have to have Windows > on it for my options trading and with only 80GB there just isn't > enough space left after putting some music in iTunes. > :) > I will say that I like the screen a lot. It's a 17" wide screen and > looks quite nice playing movies. It's an AMD/nvidia box like the one > you're talking about, although likely not the same model as I got mine > 18 months ago. > Pretty close though. The hd is much larger on the machine I'm considering. > I would personally NEVER buy a laptop without first at least > booting a Gentoo install CD, and likely 2 or 3 others, to ensure that > it can see all the hardware. Once the install CD has booted you can > run something like lspci and get readings on what hardware is in the > box. Check to see that you're getting full speed from the disk drives > as that's probably the most critical for making the machine useful > early on. If you don't get full speed disks don't buy it unless you > are certain you can get chip set support later on. > Ah, that one has me stumped. How do I check for full speed operations ? With hdparm or something else ? I figured I'd slip a Dyne live disc in the thing to see if everything works. I also have a 64 Studio live disc to take along. > > If you want or need clarification on any of this contact me online or off. > > Many thanks (again), Mark. :) Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
