Keith G. Robertson-Turner said the following on 30/05/06 22:27: > Vini Engel wrote: > >> I am researching on 64 bit performance and was wondering if any of you >> run Linux on laptops fitted with AMD Turion 64 and what the results are? > > I got an Acer Ferrari 4005 WMLi months ago, and I can honestly say it's > the *best* PC I've ever had ... in fact it absolutely *screams*. > > It rips my P4 Prescott system to utter shreds, even though the Turion > CPU is rated at 2GHz and the P4 is rated at 3.6GHz???? Do you think it will be even faster than a Core Due 2GHz? > Running FC5 on the Ferrari, and loving it. How much did you pay for it? > Haven't really looked at power management stuff, since I always just > shut down when not using the laptop, but everything else works - > including h/w accelerated OGL graphics (ATI X700), audio, Wi-Fi > (madwifi), etc. > > Only caveat with 64bit OSen is no current support (for either Windows 64 > or Linux 64) from Macromedia (flashplayer) nor Sun (Java ns-plugin). That means you can use any of these things for the time being, right? Regards, Vini
