28 Mar
2006
28 Mar
'06
6:20 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:03 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Right, but I don't think there's any standard that says laptops must be
usable for low latency or prohibits the BIOS from implementing ACPI via
SMM...
The only way to be sure is if there were a vendor who sold laptops
certified for low latency.
Lee
Even if you
build it you have no idea if it will be usable for low
latency until you try it. There's no way to know ahead of time that
a machine does not have the ACPI/SMM bug for example.
The good thing is, that with barebones the manufacturer often tries to
follow the standards a bit more, because in the long run it will make
it easier for them as far as support etc. is concerned. These
barebones are sold under various different brandnames, so they like to
keep this side of possible failures as small as possible.