Hey, I know you guys. :) (Did a phone interview with your sister company)
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Peter A. Steadman wrote:
> I'd appreciate any advice, but I'm tentatively looking at either a
> compaq presario 1900-266 (266MHz PII), or an dell inspiron 3500 (300MHz
> celeron). Do any of you have experience with these or similar machines?
I have a Compaq Presario 1625 which works great (it's a K6 rather than a
P2).
> I gather that one issue is that the video card be supported for some
> flavor of XWindows, right? The compaq says, "256-bit Accelerated
> AGP Graphics," in on of their blurbs about the 1900. Does that
> describe it's graphics card? Is it supported for XWindows? The
> dell has a NeoMagic MagicMedia 2.56 AV. Is that supported?
The catch is knowing which chipset. Regardless, it'll probably be
supported only under XFree86 3.3.3.1 (which means that anything earlier
than SuSE 6.0 probably won't work with X out of the box).
> What about modems? What does compaq mean by, "56K ITU V.90 Modem?"
> Is that one of these "win" modems? I gather those are problematic
> under linux, yes?
I use a pcmcia modem. Frankly, I never tried the factory modem as I
presumed it was a winmodem. I use a Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet adapter
that works great.
> I'd appreciate any advice. Eg, if you can recommend a better brand
> and or model, I'd love to hear it.
I'm very happy with my Compaq actually. :)
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