On Monday 03 January 2005 14:29, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:10 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Friday 31 December 2004 20:51, Mark M wrote: > > > 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). > > > > Yes, it's only for Windows, but it's also machine dependent. Some > > machines don't use them. > > Hm, I always thought Windows uses hibernation files...
It always did in my personal experience, too, but I know of people with Dells and, iirc, some Thinkpads, that had hibernate partitions. > In any case, the hibernation partition might be needed by to BIOS to do > a supend to disk. The older pre-ACPI phoenix BIOS did this for example. Which would certainly explain Dell, who used a phoenix bios. > But if you buy a new laptop, it will most likely have ACPI (where > suspend to disk is managed by the OS rather the BIOS). agreed. > > > 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. > > > > No, you want a powerbook. PPCs _look_ slower if you only look at the > > clock frequency, but they run much cooler and, generally, faster than > > intels. > > Or a centrino (Pentium M). A centrino will give him the battery life, but it won't be as good for video work (assuming all the linux apps are available for ppc - maybe not...) -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
