Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.

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Author: Tim Brocklehurst
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 00:43:00 Michael Daffin wrote:
> On 16 January 2012 23:22, Tim Brocklehurst

<timb@???>wrote:
> > The touchpad lacks a scroll facility, but otherwise it's very nice.
>
> Really? That doesn't sound right, never seen a touchpad that

cannot scroll.
> These days it tends to be two finger scrolling rather then the right

side
> of the pad... though on linux this is configurable.
>
> On windows you may need some drivers to get it to work nicely

though
> I thought windows has the side scrolling by default (though I

haven't
> really used windows on a laptop in a while).


Ah, sorry, I was wrong, it does have scroll, it's just quite a way in from
the edge of the pad.

The realtek chipset is RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller, and it is fine now that the full install is done.

Anyway, benchmark results: You may remember from a previous
post that the 2.4GHz P4 came in at an index of 447.3 The new laptop
comes in at:

1 Concurrent    1294.7
4 Concurrent    3186.0


So all-in-all, quite a bit quicker! I have full results if anyone is
interested.

Cheers,

Tim B

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