Hi, I am considering buying a Laptop/Notebook for the first time. To me, what unique in choosing a Laptop/Notebook than a desktop are, CPU temperature and power consumption, battery life, hibernation support, weight, etc.
Coincidentally, there was a heat debate on CPU power consumption and battery life at xtremesystems: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=231413 My conclusion from it is that AMD did an awful job in mobile CPU branch. I love AMD, all my desktops are AMD based, but from the above thread, it seems that choosing AMD based Laptops might not be a good idea. However, despite how well Intel is doing in preserving power consumption and battery life, I found most of Intel mobile CPUs don't support virtualization, even in their latest Core2Duo chips. Is it true? Next is the hibernation support, I mean, I hope the whole system can be suspended to RAM/disk when the lid is closed. How well this feature is supported in Linux? I'm buying the Notebook for its mobility, not as a desktop replacement. So weight is another concern, which is even more important than battery life to me. I mean, is anyone here satisfied with your 14" Notebook, or even smaller ones? Any other Laptop specific issues you've bumped into? Have low-end Notebooks like Acer given you trouble? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
