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Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech)
ExtremeTech takes a
look at some new Linare notebooks. "Linare's notebook includes
an AMD Athlon 1800+ processor, a 40-GB hard drive, a 14.1-inch XGA TFT-LCD,
128 Mbytes of RAM, a CD-ROM, Fast Ethernet, and the Linare Linux OS. It
also ships with OpenOffice, a full office suite compatible with Microsoft
Office documents."
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Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 8, 2005 19:07 UTC (Tue) by hamjudo (subscriber, #363) [Link] Here is the URL: www.linare.com/ladbs.php.The specifications don't say whether it has USB. It does say wait 2 to 4 weeks for delivery. Anyone seen a review of it anywhere?
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 8, 2005 19:16 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] USB is conspicuously absent from the specs. Why wouldn't you build in USB?
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 16, 2005 22:30 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link] As of today (16 Feb), the specs for both machines indicate 4 x USB. (They still don't say USB 2.0, though.)
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 8, 2005 20:42 UTC (Tue) by chill633 (guest, #16013) [Link] My question is the $598 version that includes more RAM, DVD and wireless -- is that a mini-PCI wireless or just an included PC-Card?
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 8, 2005 23:38 UTC (Tue) by jkinz (guest, #8651) [Link] Holy unbelievable bad tech support Batman...
Called Linare's tech support number (877) 77 LINUX, ext "2".
Got an unbelievable bad connection compared to the sales (ext 1) and marketing (ext 3). I can only surmise that the tech support connection was goin somewhere other than the same building as the sales and marketing connections, perhaps (probably) overseas somewhere (India, if the accent is any indicator).
The problem? Well tech support was able to answer the question,
Basically the connection is so bad that no information of any other than the absolutley simplest will make it through that connection.
Linare - FIX THE PHONE!
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 9, 2005 2:38 UTC (Wed) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link] It was probably the guy's phone, and he really should point it out to somebody so it can be replaced. The likelyhood that the long-haul networks carrying your call affected the audio quality in that way are nearly zero.
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 9, 2005 7:57 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Agreed. For example, in the UK, the *entire* network (apart from the "last mile") is now digital throughout.
That last mile is a pain - I have digital (ISDN) for other reasons, and in their wisdom BT have decided to implement digital-unfriendly broadband :-( so the choice is digital OR broadband, and digital wins...
Cheers,
Linare Releases Sub-$500 Notebook (ExtremeTech) Posted Feb 9, 2005 14:32 UTC (Wed) by geohump (guest, #27792) [Link] Strongly disagree- I have used many IP based(VOIP) long distance services over the past few years (For example, Pin-city). Each one had a different level of quality. Some were bad, some were good, but the worst were the ones where the quality was variable. With the variable quality you could never know if you were going to get a good call or an unusable one. For example - with Pincity.com, the calls from the USA to China were all lower quality than the long distance calls from east coast USA to Hawaii.
Also the calls to China had a consistent pattern of lower quality during certain times of the day. I attribute this to the fact that certain parts of the IP network (both Internet and commercial telecomm) carry more traffic at certain times of day, affecting routing and the availability of bandwidth.
Any smaller competitive long distance service which utilizes IP networks is going to consider using more aggressive compression or a leaner (lower voice quality) voice codec to better utilize scarce Bandwidth. And the decision of which codec to use may very in response to the current load. It would probably be automated.
I tried a call to Linare's Tech support myself, just in the middle of this post. The call quality was about a 7 out of 10. There was an omnipresent but low volume hiss that was distinctly audible. It did not interfere with the conversation. I also asked the person who answered where they were located and they said India. Their accent was detectable but not any problem. (I hope that my accent was no trouble for them either :-) )
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