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bufferoverru
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Re: Choosing a new laptop

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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March 16th, @11:22PM

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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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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