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[ILUG] Laptop Recommendation?

[ILUG] Laptop Recommendation?

John Moylan johnm at rte.ie
Tue Apr 20 10:24:21 IST 2004


Don't buy a powerbook unless you like having to map your F10 and F11
keys to left and right click.

Whoever said MAC's were user friendly was nuts.

Oh and have you tried to get an up-to-date Java SDK for Linux on PPC, or
Flash, or Real Player, or setup Eclipse ------ don't go there. I know, I
have a TI-Book - and it sucks.

John
> flashy laptop, buy a powerbook... at least those are WORTH the extra
> money you'll pay.
> 
> > It will be a dual boot  Redhat 9 / windows2000, used for development work.
> > Seen a few posts about the ATI Mobility Radeon with Linux, but mostly very
> > high res. issues. Anyone know of any issues? Alternatives?
> 
> XFree86 > 4.3.0 should support this in 2D mode.  Not sure if you'll get
> 3D support though.
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> Ruairí
> 
> -- 
> "An email worm is, is a computer virus and a computer virus is a program
>  that runs like Microsoft Word on your computer..."
> 	-- William Campbell, BUA Training on RTE Radio
-- 
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