[lug] Laptop recommendations

John Karns jkarns at csd.net
Thu May 23 13:37:08 MDT 2002


On 22 May 2002, Hugh Brown said:

> I have a Dell 8100 that works nicely.  It has a winmodem that is
> unsupported but the 15" screen and 1400x1050 is quite nice.  You have to
> use nVidia's proprietary drivers to get good performance out of the
> video card.

One of the features I like is the ability to pop in & out of the CMOS cfg
while running Linux to view (even edit[!]) the cfg, w/o having to reboot.
For some not-so-odd reason :), it doesn't seem to be able to that from
within the other os.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net




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