On Saturday 12 June 2004 08:33 pm, dircha wrote: > Cecil wrote: > > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows > > off and put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support > > for. I plan to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone > > advise me? The only other alternative is buying an apple ibook and they > > are pretty pricy. > > The main performance/efficiency bottleneck for Firefox/Thunderbird, > Openoffice.org and the GNOME and KDE desktop environments and > applications is initial load time. > > So be sure to get at least 1GB of RAM. A 1.2Ghz or 1.5Ghz Pentium M > processor will do fine once applications are loaded. > > Then, rather than closing those monster applications or rebooting, you > just suspend to disk, and resume. You should be able to be up and > working for what is (should be) a power off state in less than 30 seconds. > > And so that brings me to my point. The most important thing for a laptop > intended to run linux is that ACPI works and suspend-to-disk (whether > that is software, or bios-helped) functions properly. > > Absolutely, your laptop's power management must be compatible with at > least software suspend to disk under Linux. > > If you can include suspend-to-disk and resume into your regular usage > pattern, you can go for one of this ultra portable 1.2Ghz or 1.5Ghz x86 > laptops. > > I recommend against a "performance" laptop. The most important things > for an education laptop purchase is portability/mobility and battery life. > > The 15.4", 1600x1200 screens on Dells are very nice, but when you have > ~2-2.2hour (tops) real world battery life, it isn't worth it. > > Also, and trust me on this, you don't want your fans blowing away at > high speed in a small lecture room. It irritates everyone else, and > irritates you while you're at it. Fortunately I was able to keep my fan > usage to a minimum by tweaking thermal behavior with the i8k (Dell > laptop) kernel module. > > But in my experience, you will get significantly WORSE battery/thermal > performance under Linux than Windows, and much more so if you plan to > run something like GNOME 2.6 or KDE. > > When running top in your terminal emulator causes 4-6% constant CPU > usage, you know you have a case of bloat on your hands. > > dircha
But how does OS X perform for the following things: Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) Can I run linux apps on it? I will be mainly coding on this little thing, email, and the usual things(research, research papers, etc) Does anyone code on this? Am I wasting my time thinking about using this as my code machine for the next 4-5 years? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
