thoughts on asus M70 laptop?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:55:38PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   since we're talking laptops, i'm keen on getting a new WUXGA display
> laptop, and i was checking out one of these:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=34-220-412&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Page=1&Keywords=(keywords)
> 
> who's had any experience with linux on something like this?  or, more
> generally, with asus laptops in general?  that looks like a pretty
> good price for a moderately-loaded 17" WUXGA laptop.  and the reviews
> seem pretty decent.

Looks pretty nice.  Probably a bit heavy, and probably not a great
battery life, but oh well that's life with large laptops.

As for linux, it really depends on the components.  hd/cpu/screen/dvd is
no problem, the video chip should be fine.  It appears to have an intel
5100 wifi, which should be fine with a recent linux distribution.
Ethernet is probably fine too.

So it should probably work with linux quite well.

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Len Sorensen
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