[wplug] powernotebooks.com

[James O'Kane]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 	While I did not look at these notebooks / this site in particular,
> there are literally only about 4 notebook manufacturers out there (in
> Taiwan) and they design reference models for pretty much everybody.  What I
> found is that the current strain of laptops were, in fact, WinPuters.  The
> new slew of chipsets from VIA rely on the OS (in this case - WinXP) to
> really make them work, and Linux was NOT a candidate for them.  The more
> intelligent sites I looked at told you specifically that these are "new
> technology" notebooks that require a Microsoft OS.  There are several on
> eBay that say that too.....

Do you still have this list of urls handy? I'm interested in reading the 
more techinical details, and other might as well.
 
> 	Likewise, while Centino development work is progressing, it's not
> prime-time for Linux by any means.


Is the Centino the CPU that includes 802.11b? what was the point of that?


-james