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VPR Matrix 200A5 Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "The hard to find VPR Matrix 200A5 laptop has been reviewed. Never heard of it? It's a laptop that's designed by F.A. Porsche and sold exclusively by...Best Buy! It seems there is starting to be a rather large following of the VPR line of laptops, but that they are getting tougher to find at Best Buy (not sure if they are discontinuing or if they are selling out stock before releasing a new version.)"
Thats all VPR is. Nothing special.
I found a much more informative review here
I didn't know Yugo was responsible for IIS, that explains a lot.
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right." -
For someone trying to install a "real" OS you should perhaps learn more about how to tell what your individual components are
:-P (even if it does turn into a Windows vs Linux Rant eventually)
You can tell the ali chipset because usually near the main chip (the big thing with ALi written on it) or bottom right hand corner there's a version and a serial number which you can goto the ALi website and check up.
Besides that you can also guess it by see what features you have, which processor you can take that should easily narrow yer selections to 3 or 4 mother boards.
And I'm assuming since you said an ALi chipset for the mobo it probably has a built in sound chip? either a Qlogic, Cmedia or on of em Cirrus Logics.
Being a slashdot reader I would assume it'd prolly woulda been more helpful if you came here instead of calling up their tech support for 8 hours
You should have considered swallowing your little pride, booting into windows, grabbing a pencil and pad and letting bill gates tell you what sort of hardware was running. BEFORE you wiped the harddrive and tried to put linux on the thing.
Maybe you should have stuck with the "real OS" that came installed on the computer so you wouldn't have wasted 8 hours trying to get your freeking sound to work.
Do you people actually think that Linux is ready for the mainstream when it still takes 8 hours for a pear shaped nerd to get his sound working? Um, that takes less than a second with Windows....
That's the day I make a concerted effort to drive my 500+ HP Big Block especially long and hard.