Laptops

[Cyber Source]

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Josh Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Cyber Source wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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:
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> http://www.linuxbios.org
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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