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LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop Review

Posted by michael on from the still-not-100% dept.

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."

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  1. No ACPI? by jwr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a joke, right? Linux-certified laptop, no ACPI support?

    ACPI support is absolutely essential on a laptop.

    1. Re:No ACPI? by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think that was the parent's point. A laptop is certified to run linux, but linux can't interact with the hardware as well as windows.

      Someone waiting for a linux certified laptop might think:

      "So the best thing they could come up with still doesn't work right!"

  2. Re:What's the point of "desktop replacements"? by Doomdark · · Score: 4, Insightful
    • The laptop is a desktop replacement

    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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  3. A little biased.... by todesengel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

  4. Re:ACPI by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The fact that ACPI works as well as it does in Linux and *BSD is due to a large number of volunteers. From what I've seen it doesn't work well enough to be at all useful.
    Your choices are either to: a) fix it yourself and submit patches b) wait til someone else fixes it c) punt and use Microsoft Windows XP.
    Punt in the other direction and use APM instead of ACAPI. IBM laptops (like the T40 you mentioned - I'm using one right now) seem to work decently well with APM, at least once you figure out all the gotchas, such as it will lock up if you suspend to RAM while the AGP modules (necessary for OpenGL accel) are loaded.

    Fact is getting laptop features to work on Linux is rough going and I haven't noticed any improvement in the past 2 or 3 years.