Centrino-based Linux Laptops

sebFlyte writes "Intel has lifted its ban on Linux-based laptops carrying its Centrino brand... It obviously makes very little difference technically what name is on the outside of the box, but does this represent a major philosophical shift for the chipmaker, or are they just leaping upon the nearest bandwagon in pursuit of a few extra bucks?"

Comments

Re:How banned?

[BlowChunx]

Not everything is a conspiracy out of Richmond.

Maybe not, but out of Redmond, definitely...

Re:No excuse

[IgnoramusMaximus]

With a touchpad you can just define two-finger-clicks to be right clicks, and three-finger-clicks to be middle clicks. No such luck with a clit mouse.

And with twelve-finger + one-foot + penis tap you can have scroll wheel working in no time. The point is that some of us prefer to use an ergonomic (to us) device which accommodates 95% of our work needs without interfering with our typing which comprises even higher proportion of activity then mousing. And dont even bother musing about the ridiculous kludges such as "palm detection" used to try to rescue that decrepid thing from moving the mouse and clicking randomly while you type.

But as I said, since there appear to be devotees of arcane and unwieldy devices such as touchpads, they should make the laptops with those too, I can imagine that it is not a rocket-science type of technological achoievement to have a piece of plastic snap in where touchpad was after you detach it and an eraser head to be simply inserted into an existing slot between the keys. That way you can have your touchpad and I can have my eraser head. But I would imagine that touchpad zealots would not stand for that. They would whine and scream like with the ThinkPads untill their choice interferes prominently with everything, something about being threatened by alternatives I guess.