On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:33:03AM +0100, Liam Bedford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:30:23AM -0400, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> > Are there particular issues with Windows on this machine then, or are
> > these just the usual Windows issues?
> I'm not sure.. wireless seems to mess up.. it's got the intel centrino
> wireless card, and I've had blue screens related to the driver for that.
Interesting. Sean O'Donnell mentioned in private email that Linux had
issues with modern built-in wifi chipsets. That softened the already
gentle blow of getting a machine without built-in wifi. That Windows
doesn't even support such chipsets well turns the lack of built in
wifi into a fully fledged feature. :-)
> I don't use windows enough on it to be bothered trying to fix it.
I understand! :-)
> BTW, dabs.com do a 500 quid laptop most of the time now, toshiba/compaq/ibm.
Ah yes, so they do. The non-Acer ones aren't quite the spec of the Acer,
though it's nice to have such a choice. :-)
Thanks,
Wesley.
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