Eben King wrote:
> Has anybody done the "build your own laptop" thing? What did you
> think of the end result? Did the case seem of solid construction?
> Was it intricate to (dis)assemble? How's the battery life?
I bought an MSI-1013 chassis last year and tricked it out with
components. The result was an overpriced laptop with whitebox
performance, some serious IRQ issues, and a bunch of heat.
The biggest pain was the MSI-1013's BIOS, which has a broken ACPI DST
table, functionally crippling ACPI and causing much jumping through
hoops to load an initrd based DST which still left me with a
non-suspendable laptop (due to the ATI fglrx driver and various other
chipset dependencies).
The IRQ issues were horrible up until around 2.6.19, just before I moved
to my macbook. With 2.6.20 kernels, it seems to hold together well
enough now to run the fglrx driver without eating itself right away.
The heat issues were solvable with a little heat-fan-tray thing, but
made things a bit cumbersome.
My suggestion to you is to focus on purchasing a laptop that you _know_
will suspend cleanly with linux without too much effort to get it to
that point. That usually means decent support for said hardware with
your favorite linux distribution.
Today, I'm using a core2-duo Macbook now, with OS/X, and I'm not looking
back. Not that OS/X doesn't have its own flaws.
At least it's not Vista.
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
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