I love my "Emperor" from QLITech, http://www.qlitech.net.
These guys took over the TuxTop line and took service to another level.
The Emperor is a portable workstation. My system runs "gears" at 810 fps, runs timedemo demo001 of Q3A at 44fps (IIRC), and my DVD player works just fine (with vlc and xine).
I reviewed this unit for our LUG CedarLUG, and you can view all of the details of this unit there.
I bought one of their laptops (QLITech's). And what a great system it turned out to be.
There's a review of their Emperor model at:
www.linuxusersgroups.org.
Doing a little better than just a superficial glance, I checked out QLITech's prices.
Here's what I see:
I spec'ed out with the Emperor with an 850 chip and a DVD drive -- nothing else. Just over $2900 out the door.
Perusing the web to see what comparable buys were out there, first thing that I note (and probably obvious) I see nothing from IBM/Sony that spec out
close for under $3500.
Toshiba has a Wi-Fi unit that's lacking the DVD, but has wireless and is comparable in price
Compaq has some units that are probably the most comparable (lacking in video capabilites) but are a bit less expensive.
Overall though, prices on these are great! -- right on the money -- and I put through an order for the Emperor!
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Their site is www.qlitech.net
These guys took over the TuxTop line and took service to another level.
The Emperor is a portable workstation. My system runs "gears" at 810 fps, runs timedemo demo001 of Q3A at 44fps (IIRC), and my DVD player works just fine (with vlc and xine).
I reviewed this unit for our LUG CedarLUG, and you can view all of the details of this unit there.
I bought one of their laptops (QLITech's). And what a great system it turned out to be. There's a review of their Emperor model at: www.linuxusersgroups.org.
I spec'ed out with the Emperor with an 850 chip and a DVD drive -- nothing else. Just over $2900 out the door.
Perusing the web to see what comparable buys were out there, first thing that I note (and probably obvious) I see nothing from IBM/Sony that spec out close for under $3500.
Toshiba has a Wi-Fi unit that's lacking the DVD, but has wireless and is comparable in price
Compaq has some units that are probably the most comparable (lacking in video capabilites) but are a bit less expensive.
Overall though, prices on these are great! -- right on the money -- and I put through an order for the Emperor!