Re: Buying a New Laptop

"Jason D. Clinton" <[email protected]>
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Anticipate pain with the 550M. It will work eventually but you'll likely
need to run a beta release of a distro to even get working 2D support.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:51, Jim Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Based on this comment, and Christofer's comment, now I'm back to the ASUS.
> I can get it from Micro Center, shrink the Windows partition, see how the
> Linux install goes, and if it doesn't go well, return it.  All with no
> shipping hassles.  Sounds like a plan.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jason D. Clinton <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:45, Jim Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Shit.  None of this is easy.  The ASUS looks like almost the same machine
>>> for $250 less.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355914
>>> http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=113
>>>
>>> Although the System76 has the matte finish and Li-Polymer battery.
>>>
>>
>> All laptop batteries are the same, chemically. We're still a ways off from
>> new kinds of LiIon technologies. There's really only a handful of lithium
>> cell makers in the world of consumer electronics. The only deviations are in
>> their shapes.
>>
>>
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