On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:34:02PM +0000, Stuart Henderson spoke thusly: > On 2009-03-08, Denny White <denny...@cableone.net> wrote: > > Okay, jf, thanks. I checked it out. Good info. I guess my original > > message was a bit misleading. I just stressed the graphics part since > > I see advice given all the time to stay away from Nvidia, so I just > > wanted to clear that up early on, to show what graphics hardware was > > being used. > > NVIDIA graphics are a problem, as is the Intel part used with Atom Z5xx > (GMA 500, a licensed PowerVR core rather than their usual in-house designs). > And technical docs are not available for the USB2 video adapters. > Other than that, most things you can buy work. > > > My main concern was if there were any other problems like > > with suspend, sound, whatever. I should've been more clear. My bad. > > Way, way too late in the wee a.m. hours when I wrote the message. > > Suspend for ACPI-only systems is difficult but is being worked on. > Onboard sound works ok on most systems. >
Thanks, Stuart, for the info. One probably REALLY big thing I forgot to mention is, the Toshiba is 64-bit. Besides probably having to run current, which isn't a problem, I'd probably be running amd64 with the bsd.mp kernel. Again, no big deal. I was just concerned that I wouldn't wind up with an expensive paperweight or worse, have to revert to the M$ OS that it comes with. ;) Not that I'd do that. I'd try a Linux distro before I'd do that. I already have one windows box for some specialized work I do. That's enough. As for the Lenovo, I'm actually not too concerned about that one working. I guess what I really wanted was to be able to get the Toshiba with more hardware for the same price as the Lenovo. Denny White -- =============================================================== () ASCII ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A ===============================================================
