Originally posted by AnonymousCoward
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Besides: It's hard to compare these laptops. Sometimes Windows comes with preinstalled Adware (the yellow plague (Symantec) as trial version) to make it cheaper, then you will find hardware differences aplenty (HDD/SSD, RAM, BIOS chip, opt. drive, all the chips, screen matte or glossy) and even then you still have different manufactureres, normally Dell and Lenovo tend to be higher priced than ECS, Asus and all these guys. Partially they are better crafted, that is something you can't see when just looking at the normal tech specs. Also a lot of chips types are not given, which makes me sometimes really angry. As Linux user you want to know exactly what is used for Wlan, Lan, softmoden, Audio, SuperIO, BIOS chip (flashrom anyone?) etc. so you can check for compatibility. Also here, these chips can make a difference in price. Oh and then you also have the case, the housiung, some use Al/Mg some use just plastics. And the fans. Some try rise margins by adding cheapo fans that make a lot of noise. And you never read about that unless you check user reviews. So I think it isn't easy to compare Notebooks that way.
Sadly AMD wasn't treated well in past times by notebook vendors. If you finally found something than the vendors tried to keep it as cheap as possible and combined the AMD stuff sometimes with horrible chipsets or even worse - glossy screens (OMG-the-horror). Luckily situation seems to improve and there is more choice. On a notebook a lot of things have to play with each other it's not just the CPU and GPU.
The idea of better power management as GSoC project sounds nice but afaik enrolling phase is already over. But then I don't know if company bound projects are accepted by G or by the students.
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