[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:37:34 -0800
Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> > nvidia CK804 (eth, audio, ide, sata) worked out of the box.
> > On board I've a TI firewire (it should work never tried) and a
> > marvell technology eth (worked out of the box).
> 
> Marvell Ethernet is cheap, but still better than nVidia. Asus was
> right to replace the ForceD ethernet with it. Few people care much
> about on-board audio, and as for SATA:

Exactly. But this box is a desktop,

> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/1029.html
> Read the rest of the thread, too.

I read several post but didn't find anything interesting.
If you're referring to some problem with some Maxtor?? drivers and
Nvidia4... well I knew it and bought WD (nothing to be proud of).

I didn't even know that ati drivers were so buggy.

I've to admit my consciousness grew up with time and in the past I
didn't consider all aspect when buying nvidia video boards, anyway,
last time I did so was because there wasn't any better choice to drive
my monitor in 1920x1200 and I had a vague interest in multi core CPU.

At this moment anyway at least all the amd/nvidia desktop boxes are
running pretty fine and for what they have to do they cost the
right price.

> > I had the feeling that in recent times (3+ years) amd hasn't been
> > able to produce low power mobile cpu with good chipset for wifi.
> > 
> > So even if you're planning to buy a old one, amd doesn't look a
> > good choice for a notebook.

> There are no AMD chipsets that include WiFi. Laptop manufacturers
> are free to choose whatever WiFi chipsets they wish to use with one
> of the four makes of motherboard chipset for AMD. That is
> definitely A Good Thing™.

I think it has some drawback on power consumption... and yeah for
other things it would be a Good Thing.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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