[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Where did u by the Sony Viao laptop and how much and specs please


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > to portables... Fagetaboutit. No one come close to Apple's size
> > constraints and build quality. Maybe Sony, but they are more expensive
> > than Apple for lesser specs.
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> I bought a very nice 18.4" Sony laptop and have been very very happy with
> it. I'd say about par with Apple for similiar specs (I -almost- bought the
> Macbook Pro), once you discount the OS and Application licenses from
> Apple.
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> I tend to buy hardware I know (or at least think I know) will run Linux
> well, solves a lot of issues. Linux on good hardware sings and dances
> like Fred Astair and Ginger Rodgers.
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> And I had to check: My home media center is running a 1.5tb Seagate
> as Ext3 with bare (/dev/sda1) non-LVM style drives with no issues.
> It was running Mythbuntu, but I went back to straight Ubuntu 10.04 a
> while ago. It used to dual boot, but Linux's midi / sound software
> got good enough I no longer needed windows at all. It dual booted
> without issues, it no longer has Windows at all. My wife is still in
> Windows mode for some things, but is loving a Linux netbook for general
> use.. she is slowly converting.
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> Avast yelling "Virus database updated" may alone be a reason for the final
> swap once she is out of school (in 2 weeks, yahoo!).
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> Wouldn't be the first time a dos boot disk and "fdisk /mbr" fixed some
> boot weirdness.
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