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Aug 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
My laptop has been a dream (knock on wood). No problems so far. It's even taken some heavy beatings and a nasty drop, but keeps booting. Haven't noticed any degradation of battery life either, even after 2 years or so, even though this is apparently a problematic issue with many laptops (Mac's and Viao's).It's a Compaq Presario, and I couldn't recommend it enough (except format the drive and install Linux or some other OS). The only thing that's wearing out is some of the paint on the edges, but only just. I've seen Mac's look well old even after 6 months, so I don't feel all that annoyed by it.Speaking of which, KPowersaver has CPU frequency clocking and such built into it. I don't know if this is specific to OpenSuse tho?
One tip I heard a while back (though never tried) is to run your OS and 'essential' apps off a compact flash card with a PCMCIA reader (you can get on ebay for a few bucks). You can easily do this with Mac OS9 but for OSX you can do a custom install and leave off all the print drivers and Asian fonts to do an install of Panther at 1.5gb so a 4gb compact flash would be sufficent, leaving your hard drive for storage, orignal OS.apps.No moving parts should mean better battery life and far less heat. All I need now is that 4GB compact flash card...
I got a Compaq Presario the other day, and so far it seems pretty solid, and an excellent quality build too. Disagree with the OS comment though, pretty lame.
jtoemanAug 15, 2006
Thanks for all the diggin' I am working with the ISP to fix the issue!
jellygraphAug 15, 2006
My laptop has been a dream (knock on wood). No problems so far. It's even taken some heavy beatings and a nasty drop, but keeps booting. Haven't noticed any degradation of battery life either, even after 2 years or so, even though this is apparently a problematic issue with many laptops (Mac's and Viao's).It's a Compaq Presario, and I couldn't recommend it enough (except format the drive and install Linux or some other OS). The only thing that's wearing out is some of the paint on the edges, but only just. I've seen Mac's look well old even after 6 months, so I don't feel all that annoyed by it.Speaking of which, KPowersaver has CPU frequency clocking and such built into it. I don't know if this is specific to OpenSuse tho?
pja7Aug 15, 2006
One tip I heard a while back (though never tried) is to run your OS and 'essential' apps off a compact flash card with a PCMCIA reader (you can get on ebay for a few bucks). You can easily do this with Mac OS9 but for OSX you can do a custom install and leave off all the print drivers and Asian fonts to do an install of Panther at 1.5gb so a 4gb compact flash would be sufficent, leaving your hard drive for storage, orignal OS.apps.No moving parts should mean better battery life and far less heat. All I need now is that 4GB compact flash card...
ziadozAug 18, 2006
I got a Compaq Presario the other day, and so far it seems pretty solid, and an excellent quality build too. Disagree with the OS comment though, pretty lame.
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