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LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop Review
Anonymouse writes "OSNews posted a comprehensive review of the made-for-Linux LinuxCertified LC2430 laptop. They found that all its components are fully compatible with Linux, except with ACPI in recent kernels (which actually affects many laptops recently). The laptop is a desktop replacement with strong performance and some good extra features: Firewire port, 3-1 card reader, combo drive, SXGA+ TFT screen and an ATi Radeon 3D card. Four Linux distributions were tested with it."
It looked like then "special" price was higher than the "normal" price, then I looked again:
The price appeared as $1099 (struckout) and $1699 as the "special" price. I guess "0" and "8" look similar if they have are struck through.
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This is a joke, right? Linux-certified laptop, no ACPI support?
ACPI support is absolutely essential on a laptop.
In other words, it tries to be just as big, hot, and power hungry as a desktop.
Huh? I thought all that means is that it would replace main _function_ of a desktop system, while providing the benefit of being portable. But without completely sacrificing ergonomics, or reasonable performance. Just like mobile phones can be replacements of regular wired phones.
I think you may have read too much into that one sentence there.
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It feels to me that this review is a little biased. For example, the authoer says that this notebook shuts down "sometimes without warning" if the batteries get too low, and he says that this is a good thing! I can't imagine this "feature" succeeding on a more mainstream laptop...
Although I totally get where you're coming from, there IS a market for "desktop replacements". For starters, the gaming community.... Even if your laptop is a "brick", it's magnitudes of order easier to take it to and from LAN parties than lugging around a tower case with seperate display, keyboard and mouse.
Another group of buyers are folks who don't really travel much, but simply want the ability to use their computer in "non-traditional settings". Many of these people are trying to completely get rid of a desktop system and have something portable that compares favorably in overall system performance to their former desktop PC. Power-hungry isn't that much of an issue if you're just going to sit on the couch in the family room, or temporary set up the system on a kitchen counter while you're fixing dinner....
I had this whole debate with one of my best friends when I chose an Apple Powerbook 17" and he chose (for about the same price) a Sager "desktop replacement" laptop. Eventually, he sold the Sager - and has decided to go back to an old Dell Inspiron he owned before. The graphics capabilites on the Dell make it unsuitable for some gaming, but I think he finally realized what I kept trying to tell him. When I'm doing things that require hard-core CPU power (whether it's gaming or video editing from camcorder footage or what-not), I'm more comfortable just sitting down at a desk, in a good computer chair, anyway. I'd rather have my portable be as portable as possible (without sacrificing too much screen real-estate, which is why I still went with the 17" PB).
Then instead of being impressed with these 'reasonable' prices for a system with a free OS compared to one with a non-free OS, wouldn't it be more surprising that they don't offer them at lower prices since they didn't have to pay anything for the OS, lowering their costs?
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