[vox] Re: Laptop recommendations -- my final decision

[Don Werve]

Ken Bloom wrote:
> In the end I got a compaq presario v2310us, based on the AMD Turion64
> chip. I got it at CompUSA for about $850 after rebates, which seems
> like an amazing deal for an AMD64. )ne of the rebates, a $150 rebate
> only lasted 6 days, ending today, and apparently this was so popular
> there were no more left in the 4 nearest stores to me. So I bought the
> display model.

Work got one of these for me a few months ago; if you're happy with the 
physical configuration (I hate the widescreen layout, and the keyboard 
isn't as nice as the ThinkPad), it's not a bad machine, and they 
certainly are cheap.

You'll need 'acpi_sleep=s3_bios' to get suspend working, and ndiswrapper 
for the BroadCom internal network card -- if anyone knows of a native 
driver, I'm all ears.  With powernowd, I get about six hours on the 
extended battery, two and a half on the standard one, and mine is the 
shitty CPU (Celeron).

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