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| 222208 | 2004-03-13 03:13:00 | Greetings, Ive made up my mind I'll be buying a laptop soon. I plan on financing it with Credit Capable (capable.co.nz) Anyway, Ive got two laptops in mind ATM. Firstly one from DSE: www.dse.co.nz The second from QMB Computers: www.qmb.co.nz Im wanting to run Gentoo Linux on it, which means an OS compiled from source will be using the CPU a lot for a day or so. That's why the Asus Notebook looks attractive. 2.8Ghz will be a major improvement over my 1.46 Ghz Athlon XP 1700+. Im wanting to use it on the road a lot also, keeping it in the car when I travel etc. That's why the Transmeta lappy looks appealing. I'll need to invest in a Car Charger for whatever one I do choose. What sort of speeds do you get from the Crusoe CPU in comparison to other Intel/AMD CPU's? Any recommendations on the matter? Cheers Chill. |
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| 222209 | 2004-03-13 04:17:00 | From what I recall the crusoe performance was a bit disappointing, but you could always set up distcc to offload most of the compiling to your desktop. I seem to recall a version of knoppix that turns any machine into a dedicated distcc machine... *cough* internet cafe *cough*. The specs for the DSE crusoe machine aren't great, the DSE site says it only has "upto" two hours battery life. And its only ~0.5kg lighter than the P4 machine. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 222210 | 2004-03-13 04:31:00 | The Transmeta TM5800 Notebook seems to have a 1 GHz processor (but could be wrong) from my previous investigations of that notebook, but it is fanless and very battery efficient. It only takes up to 512 MB of RAM and the monitor only supports up to a 1024x768 resolution. I couldn't really find a comparison with that processor type and a AMD or Intel processor The ASUS from QMB seems to have a better monitor, can take more RAM and of course has the grunty CPU. Unless you can get it without an OS, you will be paying for an OS that you don't want. The latest PC World magazine also gave a ASUS A2 an editors choice award. Bit of a price difference between the two. Gentoo will take longer to compile on the Transmeta but once you have the system set up, you shouldn't need to be doing this too often from scratch. The battery life and cooler running system of the Transmeta will be a bonus if you are planning to use it more on the road than as a stay-at-home laptop. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 222211 | 2004-03-13 04:40:00 | Thanks Jen and bmason, so far Im thinking about going with my initial thoughts of the Asus Lappy. I spoke with one of the guys from QMB yesterday, it comes with Restore Discs... The Asus laptop has a larger HDD also. I wont be carrying it over my shoulder much, so the .5KG extra matters precious little. I didnt know Knoppix had Distcc? I know that Dyne::bolic does, and Ive got an .iso of that ;-) Can anybody recommend any other laptops under the 2K + GST mark? Cheers Chill. |
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