Just to pipe in quickly. I might consider selling mine soon which
would put me in a similar position. I would recommend looking at
companies that have made some effort to support linux such as dell and
IBM. I know Dell's machines are ugly but they're cheap and
configurable and some of them may ha
On 6/24/07, k11stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
what you say about the mpb pricing is not exactly true - compared to a
dell xps (which is the only brand with most similar features ) is
2300 $ - and the new mbps are 2k and have a better dx10 compliant
video card ..
Well, the $2300 XPS that I
On 6/24/07, daniel g. siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi jon!
i just read your mail and now im brooding.. i just find somebody who
would buy my macbook pro c2d and now i want to buy a new one. i wanted
to buy the new macbook pro with the nvidia-card, but after your mail i
dont know if it is a
On 6/24/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
30 minutes of battery time in GNU/Linux? wowzers,
that's...wellhorrible. are you using Linux From Scratch, or have you
built your own OS another way?
-Nick
Yea, it's DIY Linux via pkgtools from Slackware. There's not too much else
to d
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote:
> devices and that function is there for broken firmware/devices... I've
> learned to accept that I only get 30 minutes of battery time under linux. 60
> if it's completely idle... :-(
>
> And you guys wonder why I'm always so grumpy!!
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> The attached patch tries to resolve the 'appletouch runs amok' problem,
> which accured *for me* after using the mbp for a couple of hours/days
> with the power-saving [PATCH] Make appletouch shut up when it has
> nothing to say from Matthew Garrett.
>
> I am using it fo
On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No. I never notice a change in power consumption. I just do it so it quits
waking up my procs all the time (which doesn't necessarily translate as
power saved). The hal devs even say that you really shouldn't be polling
devices and that funct
