26 Mar
2003
26 Mar
'03
2:09 p.m.
Hallo Ralf,
all is well in K.?
Ralf Haller hat gesagt: // Ralf Haller wrote:
I am thinking of buying a notebok or subnotebook.
However I don't know
which one to get?
Here are some requirements the notebook should meet:
1. Runnable with Linux (of course!)
2. Reasonable sound support (recording and playback at least)
I bought a laptop recently and I had to face it: There are no
notebooks (except maybe the powerbooks) with reasonable/semi-pro
sound built in. So you need to add an external soundbox or PC-Card in
your calculation. There are cheap USB-cables like the one by Edirol.
3. jack and adour should be able to run
If ALSA runs, both of these should run, too. There are no new laptops
under the 1 GHz border anymore, so you are on the safe side anyway.
4. WLAN (either build in or via PC-Card)
What notebooks do you use? What are your experiences?
I have the Acer Travelmate 225 and it is a really nice notebook.
Everything I use is supported (not the modem), I use APM and it runs
more than 3 hours while playing mp3's with alsaplayer. It also is very
silent, only if I compile ardour or the kernel, the fan goes on.
I can recommend it. It's around 1000 Euro.
ciao
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