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[AlbertP]

I don't know whether this is the right place to report typos in articles but reigns should be reins.

[AlbertP]

My Thinkpad T60 did not have problems with the volume & mute controls, though it is of course confusing to have two different places to control the...

[AlbertP]

Indeed disks are sold in GB's to make them look bigger, but Windows counts GiB's even though it displays GB.

I just built a computer with...

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The NVIDIA chips that feature VP2 are: G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT200 - you can see in lspci if your card is one of those.

They are usually...

[AlbertP]

You're mentioning ALC268 codec support here, but my laptop with ALC268 has already worked right all the way down to 2.6.35 and maybe even further back...

[AlbertP]

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 for a description of the x86-64 instruction set (known as AMD 64 because it was invented by AMD).
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You're right that not all firmwares have been freed yet, this is only about firmware for USB devices so far, not about the PCI(e) cards. (In the case...

[AlbertP]

@ Michael: I think you should make clear that this is about USB devices, not the normal PCI(e) wireless products from Atheros. Also these USB devices...

[AlbertP]

Powerful for the low resolutions that mobile devices use indeed, but this Steam Box will likely be often connected to Full HD TVs.

Also...

[AlbertP]

On desktop motherboards, certainly. You can put your own AMD or NVIDIA graphics card in the PCIe x16 slot.

I once used Linux to backup...

[AlbertP]

Isn't Ironlake Gen5 instead of Gen4?

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Well, on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...ocessing_units it's easy to look up the right names.

[AlbertP]

i945GM is not GMA 3100, it's GMA 950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA

[AlbertP]

While you maybe can't optimize for Core2 for compatibility reasons, it is certainly safe to enable use of SSE and SSE2 in 32-bit i965. This optimization...

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Windows 8 is not preinstalled, so it doesn't need Secure Boot. Even if it were available, it wouldn't be enabled by default to allow people to install...