I was talking about Centrino's only. They sound much more promising than P4-Ms. And battery life is... much better. From all the newsgroups I've read, the Dells are quite hot too. The D800 uses an Nvidia GeForce 400, which is quite hot. The Radeon (ATI Radeon 9000) is much cooler and less power-greedy, maybe slightly less performant than the GeForce.
IBMs and Dells have the best battery life. Note one thing: all the online tests you'll see only mention big brands, but never generics. So I am sure they're a little biased and cheaper generic models might cut just as well as expensive models. As for Centrino and linux, someone posted a link already, I am sure google has the answer. --Stephane -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:23 PM To: Provost, Stephane Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: experience with late model laptops? Provost, Stephane wrote: > My $0.02. If you're looking for cheaper stuff, try www.powernotebooks.com. > It's sort of a grey market of the laptops, worth giving it a shot. At least, > I got an answer the same day. > with a specific reference to the 'Sager NP4020' model on the 15" page on the site, and also targeted generally at laptops that use desktop P4s: i have an earlier model of this laptop, it is a generic model marketed by a number of companies including alienware and eurcom in north america. I have unstable running on it with most functionality available, but i haven't tried to access firewire, USB etc and don't yet have dri running. also, these things run _HOT_ and have crappy battery life. i would recommend in these cases to go with a centrino-based laptop for most uses, but i'm not sure where linux support for this is at. anyone? bueller? ->jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
