Laptops

[Josh Johnson]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Cyber Source wrote:

> I think one of the most important things to look for in a laptop or any 
> pc/motherboard that is often overlooked is the BIOS.

I don't know if anyone else has seen this or not, but my next mobo will 
definitely be one of the supported chipsets so that I can try this out:

http://www.linuxbios.org


> I have spent plenty of 
> time working around really bad simplistic BIOS. IMHO if it has a phoenix 
> BIOS, RUN AND DON'T LOOK BACK ;). Laptops and cheap pc's seem to be the worst 
> at this. I have been able to put boot options in to workaround these things 
> but it can be a real pain and time consumer to figure out what's what. I had 
> an HP laptop in here once (they should just stick to printers) that almost 
> got punted because of such a crap BIOS. But I did not punt it and worked on 
> it for about 4 hours figuring out what PCI IRQ's to isolate, etc. and finally 
> came up with the right formula and then it worked beautiful, onboard ati 
> chipset modem and all! So now when people bring there laptops or cheap pc's 
> in, BIOS is the first thing I look at.
>
> Joshua Ronne Altemoos wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>> 
>> I have some questions this may be ot maybbee. But i am looking for a
>> brand/model of laptop that is not nesscarly a desktop replacement but
>> i do not want to notice the differnce. It needs to be linux
>> complatibale but will be used for windows also since the college login
>> for the network is window domain based. I want to be able to burn cds
>> and dvds and play dvd movies very well. Prefeered to be a dell but any
>> suggestions are good.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
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