5 Jul
2006
5 Jul
'06
2:32 p.m.
Hi Al,
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:05:08PM +0200, Alex.Loes(a)lll.lu wrote:
Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T.
with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
With the reference, you should be able to google for the
components, and check if they individually run on Linux,
and especially on 64-bit Linux. I'd guess there might be
surprises with the WLAN, possibly the card reader. Also,
does this model use SATA already? If so, there might be
issues booting from older distributions' install media.
If you can have a look at the actual hardware, ask if you
may boot it using a Knoppix or Kubuntu Dapper Live CD,
this way you could quickly find out about possible issues.
The official description at [1] is unfortunately very
unprecise as to the innards...
Greetings, Eric
[1] http://www.amd-notebooks.de/produkte_detail.php?item=8