> > plenty of people sell the sager/clevo variety preloaded with Linux, > depending on where you are based you might even find someone local who has > something in stock.
wow! karanbir, that's an eye-opener. i was not aware of sager-ratna or clevo. googled this: http://www.xoticpc.com/index.php > about 3 years back, I had a dual cpu ( not dual core, but real dual cpu )- > with 4 GB of ram and 2 sata hdd's in a raid-0 laptop. Considering battery > life was about 30 min, and weight was about 5.2Kg's, I moved to a dualcore > laptop with not that much brawn, but enough to get most things done. pretty neat. a desktop-workstation really, that you could lug around with 30-minutes of backup and a shoulder-ache. anyone knows of any vendor of sager/clavo in delhi? > The other place you can look at are the gaming laptop rigs, typically in the > 2.4 to 2.8L price bracket. 8GB ram with dedicated 1GB display ram etc are > known to exist have discovered a few of these monsters, but none obviously with linux pre-installed. > But then again, 'high-end' is debatable. Do you mean lots of resources ( as > I might assume ) - or do you mean something with a diamond eddged'd gold > ribbed thing that come with a brand name ? tech obviously, not jewelry or luxury-branding. to get a laptop that handles extreme crunching of pixels, stores bucketloads of them, speed-demons through multi-track live recording, and all this using, say, ubuntustudio, would be thrilling. one of the most common problems with most commodity hardware is with digitizing audio. the internal circuitry may generate 'noise' as people don't really care about shielding and isolation. getting 3d graphics cards to natively work a 100% with full-functionality under linux is another unix|pipe dream. regards niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
