Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: centrino | Date | Fri, 2 May 2003 13:05:48 -0700 |
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> From: Jeffrey Baker [mailto:jwbaker@acm.org]
> Here was my collected experience on a Centrino machine, > before I returned it in favor of an iBook:
> [snipped description of how PM, cpu perf states, and wlan don't work on Linux]
It's kind of sad, but I don't think that this means that Centrino has somehow worsened the Linux laptop experience -- it's just one example of how *all* laptops aren't optimal under Linux.
OEMs tried selling Linux laptop SKUs a few years ago and they didn't sell. If the Linux community wants good laptop support, it cannot rely on anyone but itself to make that happen. Just like Linux on servers in the old days. :) I can see this happening on acpi-devel and cpufreq mailing lists, but obviously, as your experience proved, there's still work to do.
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