Hello Mark, Am 2005-01-01 11:51:16, schrieb Mark M: > Hi, Apologies if this is OT. > > I have never bought a laptop before and was hoping for some > recomendations. > > I am hoping for advice on the following: > > 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you > should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or > only for MSwindows? Is there anything else I really need to know (of > course I will be installing debian on it).
Do not know, because I do not use it for security reason. > 2. Reliability - I will be driving around for a total of 1hr per day > with the laptop on my back on a motor cycle, and get a 3 year warranty. > Are any particular brands better? Sony? Toshiba? I have 7 IBM's ad will never change it... The smallest is a TP760ED (233 MHz, 128 MB memory and 8 GB HDD), the one R40 (1300MHz, 1 GB memory and 20 GB HDD) and since 4 days a T70 They are very robust... > 3. Battery life: I am hoping to use the laptop for 2 things: 1. video > editing/dvd burning from camera with firewire. 2. Using on longdistance > flights (but not video editing). I guess for video/burning dvd's I want > a fast processor eg the pentium M 3GHz. But for extended battery life I > want a slower low power processor. Forget 3 GHz laptops and long Battery life. All labtops more then 1,6 GHz are only remplacments for Workstations and not realy for mobil use. I have an runtime of around 4 Hours with my TP760ED, 3 Hours with my R40 and 2 Hours with my T70. > So my question is: can I improve battery life on say a 3GHz pentium M > by slowing down the clockspeed in BIOS to say 1GHz or 500MHz? The laptop do this its own. If you are on Batery, mostly you will have between 800 and 1200Mhz. > Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, Mark. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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