[ale] Averatec

[Jeff Hubbs]

Microcenter has a Compaq AMD64 Turion laptop that we just picked up - 
it's midway through a Gentoo install now.  The onboard wifi may not be 
issue-free - seems to have either a third-party driver or ndiswrapper 
solution. 

Jeff

Christopher Fowler wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:37, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Wow, a sempron 3000+, I'll bet you can cook eggs on the cover when it's 
>>on but closed. :)  I'll bet the thing is noisy for a laptop.  Has to 
>>have some substantial cooling.
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>When doing a search on the Internet on this unit one of the complaints
>was heat.  Also another one was turn around on repairs.  Unfortunately
>if I need my laptop fixed I need it fast so I should just stick to name
>brands like HP.
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>Fry's had a small toshiba that was a notebook but much smaller.  Maybe a
>7" screen.  I liked it but it was $2100.  Amazing price for something so
>small.  It was a pad so you could use a stylus to write on the screen.  
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>I'm thinking maybe a DV6000 HP that has a 15.4" screen.  Whatever I buy
>will have Windows immediately erased and replaced by FC4.
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