On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:26, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
I've ben thinking for a long time of buying a laptop for working on my projectduring trips and overseas stays ... rather than renting desktops. Needless to say I wish to rn SuSE. Up to last year most laptops were shipped with Windows installed and vendors/makers denied any responsibility about replacing Windows with SuSE satisfactorily. Another drawback is the particular configuration I need. Basically I'm looking for at least 1GB RAM, Pentiun IV or equivalent processor at least 3.06 GHz or faster. I aslso need the wireless network and a true model for occasional dial-up connections. Last year i thought I had found a laptop with the above characteristics but a better look at its components revealed an extrmely slow access to the data bus which would result in many CPU idle cycles.
During the last year laptops have evolved and maybe the current market offers even more than I need ... I havent' found any time to follow up unluckily ... recently I've been offered a laptop ECS which is to me a totally unknown brand name. My understanding is that some third parties buy the main components and then they assembly them together according to the customer's requests .. which sounds pretty convenient.. But there may be a pitfall I cannot see out of ignorance in this field. Honestly I do not know whether it's better to buy a known brand like Dell, HP, IMB, etc ... or save some money and still have a reliable laptop specially made for me by these third parties ... I'd greatly appreciate some advice
Maura EM I like my HP... seems to run SuSE 9 Pro w/o much problem, once I got used to how to set things up. Wireless works... as does eth0, internal modem is supported, firewire is supported, etc. PCI listing follows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem] 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller 00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M
I thought I had made a mistake getting this box, but it turned out it was really my inexperience w/SuSE that was the main problem. :-) -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty