decx
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Re: Choosing a new laptop
At that price level you can get the 15 inch 2.4GHz MacBook Pro. I has everything you listed except for a PCMCIA slot. But nowadays you can get most cards in an Express Card format anyways.
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bufferoverru
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Ottumwa, IA | It looks like a nice system but I think I need a PCMCIA slot. I sometimes need to use a sensitive wireless cards in Linux. Atheros USB adapters don't work in Linux and there really aren't any extreme range Express card slot Wireless cards. |
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decx
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March 16th, @10:27PM
| The wireless on the MBP is a Draft 2.0 802.11n based Atheros AR5008 with fairly good range. It has about the same or slightly better wireless signal performance as my Atheros a/b/g (don't remember the chipset at the moment) PCMCIA cards I use on my older (no integrated wireless) Windows notebooks.
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bufferoverru
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| I have an EnGenius 400mW Atheros AR5006 mini-PCI card in my current laptop. It is crazy the range over the stock broadcom it has. I would say 3-4x the distance in buildings. But even the Broadcom had better range than my Cisco A/B/G PCMCIA (Atheros) card.
On a different note, how easy is it to run linux on those MBPs? I mainly run Fedora.
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decx
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| It should be fairly straight forward even if you install it to run natively (dual booting). After all it is a x86 system. You can also run it as a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion or Parallels.
Specifically for Fedora:
»fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraOnMactel
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bufferoverru
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| Wow, that looks complicated. I currently use Windows + two different Linux distros on my laptop. I tri-boot with grub witch means I would be quad booting... »wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_···BootCamp |
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decx
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Toronto, ON | Generally anything that is written down make things appear more complicated that it really is. 
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