By contrast, my experience with Acer laptops has not been good, but that may not be Acer's fault, due to various complicated support arrangements. The build quality on mine wasn't designed for it being humped around and used for at least 8hrs a day, though, which mine is.
Benchmarks I've seen of Dothan don't seem to suggest that it's worth the higher price tag, especially considering, although the operating power is lower, the standby power is higher, so battery life remains much the same. Giles Robertson > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 May 2004 22:07 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops > > Jim Wilson schrieb: > > > I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on > long > > trans continental airline flights. The user is word > processing/spreadsheet > > oriented. > > Get an Centrino based laptop. > > Windows is fully supported and Linux is getting there (the WLAN driver > is in a useable beta stage) > > The brand (Acer, Dell, IBM, ...) doesn't really matter. Every major > player has high quality / high price modells as well as those with a > smaller price tag (and a not so good quality...) > > CU, > Christian > > PS: I'm writing this on an Acer Travelmate 800 series laptop - which I'd > buy again. It's high quality with a very reasonable price tag. And > performance (even with FlightGear) is great > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
