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[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

Frank Duignan frank.duignan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 14:14:49 IST 2010


make sure your processor has hardware virtualization

On 16 September 2010 13:58, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
>  On 09/16/2010 01:54 PM, Shane Tuohy wrote:
>>
>> I know it's anecdotal evidence, but whatever. I've been on 64 bit since
>> '08,
>> when I got a laptop capable of it. It was a bit of a pain at the start,
>> especially with Flash, but to be honest, there haven't been many problems.
>> This has been my experience using 64 bit Ubuntu, Arch and Crunchbang. You
>> don't notice much of a difference really, as far as I can remember.
>
> had some problems setting up the WiFi on my last 64bit machine. in the end,
> had to use MadWifi to fix it
> (http://verens.com/2008/04/12/hp-g6000-in-linux/)
>
> but - as long as the laptop isn't /too/ leading-edge, I wouldn't expect any
> problems.
>
> kae
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