[luau] Review - Laptops for Linux

[Jim Roby]

Had a guy recently bought a new Dell desktop,came with ME.He told me
he wanted to upgrade to 98SE,I said sure,wipe the drive and go.Turns out
there was a propritary overlay software that rendered the disk unusable;
This too would play havoc with an attempted Linux install,finally Dell
tech gave him a debug script to return the drive to OEM.I asked him for it
for future reference,can't verify what he gave me is absolutly correct,but
for those interested.
---
Debug
F 200 L1000 0
A C5: 100
Mov AX, 301
Mov BX, 200
Mov CX, 1
Mov DX, 80
INT 13
INT 20
[enter]
G

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jeff Mings wrote:

> Warren,
> 	I really like the direction of your review.  Specifically, it addressed two 
> of the things that most reviews omit- graphic performance under Linux, and 
> the "installability" factor.  E.g., I recently purchased two HP Athlons for a 
> restaurant corporation that I work for.  They didn't even have the 
> often-deplorable recovery disk - just hidden recovery partitions.  Installing 
> Linux in an optimized fashion as part of a dual boot system would be rather 
> complicated, but finding this out before purchase isn't easy.
> 
> Keep up the great work,
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:19 am, you wrote:
> > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/~warren/presario/presario.php
> >
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > At that URL is my review of the Compaq Presario 722US laptop computer that
> > will soon be posted to AMDMB.com.  In my testing I have found this to be an
> > excellent priced laptop with tons of features that work nearly perfectly in
> > Linux after some tweaking.  Here are some of its better features:
> [snip]
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