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[John Harrold]

Sometime in April James O'Kane assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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.

i would like these also.

| > 	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?

http://www.powernotebooks.com/centrino.php

basically it has to have a pentium mobile processor, intel 855 chipset and
and an intel pro/wireless 2100 (802.11b) network capabilities. i guess
donald is talking about the 855 chipset support and probably power
management stuff?

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