From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Carl Thompson <cet@carlthompson.net>
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Best CPU and Chipset for cpufreq?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:01:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116210134.GC11919@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116113649.p3iyo4gg408gc8c8@carlthompson.net>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:36:49AM -0800, Carl Thompson wrote:
> My current main laptop is an eMachines M5305 and it has been fantastic. It has
> an Athlon XP 2200+ that can throttle all the way down to 532MHz.
Interesting, I've received reports that model has broken PST tables.
What BIOS revision do you have ? (dmidecode output would be useful)
> Plus, the eMachines laptops are very Linux-friendly, have a widescreen aspect
> ratio (1280x800) and are very cheap despite being very powerful.
eMachines have been extremely unhelpful in some cases too.
When someone pointed out to them they had broken PST tables, they got
quite annoyed, and blamed it on "Linux not being a real operating system".
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 16:39 Best CPU and Chipset for cpufreq? Jesper Anderson
2004-01-14 17:18 ` Juan M. Duran
2004-01-14 19:22 ` Jesper Anderson
[not found] ` <20040114204934.GA18333@piout.net>
2004-01-14 21:54 ` Jesper Anderson
[not found] ` <20040114221840.GA16987@piout.net>
2004-01-14 22:42 ` Jesper Anderson
2004-01-15 16:27 ` Ducrot Bruno
2004-01-16 19:36 ` Carl Thompson
2004-01-16 21:01 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-01-16 22:09 ` Carl Thompson
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