Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Is there anything to stay away from that has major issues with FC or > > Linux in general? > > Modems. 56K that is.. Unless you have broadband, so that's a non-issue. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 (Centrino, 1.4 GHz). With this laptop even the built-in modem works, though it is a winmodem. > > Issues with built in WiFi? > > Working. Ndiswrapper. Or with Linuxant's DriverLoader. When I tried ndiswrapper it has frozen my keyboard, but things might have changed. There is also work in progress for a free Centrion WiFi driver (written by Intel): http://ipw2100.sf.net > > Are Centrino's any good? It seems like they have taken a step > > backwards and lowered the processor speed.. > > In some cases, the extra cache makes thing faster. eg: During video > encoding, I compare (not apple to apple) on a D600 1.4G 512Ram vs > 2.4G P4 512M Ram (desktop). FPS using Helix Producer gets me like > 11-12 FPS vs 10-11 FPS on the desktop It is not only the cache, Intel has created a completly new design to reduce power consumption. > So.. you be the judge. > > Oh.. and Battery life if it's anything to you, the D600's Batt life > sucks. 2:30 hours on a 6 cell. Mine has more than 5 hours battery life :-) Regards, Andreas
