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| reply to decx 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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| 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 -- Go Leafs Go! |
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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 Premium join:2002-06-07 Toronto, ON | Generally anything that is written down make things appear more complicated that it really is.  -- Go Leafs Go! |
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