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. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > KCLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug