The Age Old Question: A Laptop?

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Hello,

As is often asked in the Newsgroup, I would like any advice or expereiences
with running qnx rtp (6.x) on a laptop. I have had my share of problems and
before I buy another one, I humbly request your advice. Of course chipsets
change in simiilar /same models, so it is nearly impossible to advise that a
particular laptop is the one, but I need a couple good starting points. Then
I can try those out and work from there.

If you have any particular experience, good or bad, with running rtp on your
laptop, please send a quick follow up to this post.

Thanks

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I have been using Acer Travelmates with success in the past. However, as
you noted, things are always changing in the realm of laptops. Some things
I would avoid are hot-swapping CDROMs and docking stations. Sometimes these
things work without OS intervention, sometimes they do not.

One option would be to burn a copy of NC onto a CDROM and take it down
to CompUSA or BestBuy and try out QNX. You would quickly know if your
hardware is supported or not. :wink:

chris


Biren Mehta <bmehta7696@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,

As is often asked in the Newsgroup, I would like any advice or expereiences
with running qnx rtp (6.x) on a laptop. I have had my share of problems and
before I buy another one, I humbly request your advice. Of course chipsets
change in simiilar /same models, so it is nearly impossible to advise that a
particular laptop is the one, but I need a couple good starting points. Then
I can try those out and work from there.

If you have any particular experience, good or bad, with running rtp on your
laptop, please send a quick follow up to this post.

Thanks

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

3

No problems with IBM.



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Hello,

As is often asked in the Newsgroup, I would like any advice or
expereiences
with running qnx rtp (6.x) on a laptop. I have had my share of problems
and
before I buy another one, I humbly request your advice. Of course chipsets
change in simiilar /same models, so it is nearly impossible to advise that
a
particular laptop is the one, but I need a couple good starting points.
Then
I can try those out and work from there.

If you have any particular experience, good or bad, with running rtp on
your
laptop, please send a quick follow up to this post.

Thanks

4

Hi…

Gateway laptops may give you problems. So will some Sonny laptops. This
is my experience.

Regards…

Miguel.


Biren Mehta wrote:

Hello,

As is often asked in the Newsgroup, I would like any advice or expereiences
with running qnx rtp (6.x) on a laptop. I have had my share of problems and
before I buy another one, I humbly request your advice. Of course chipsets
change in simiilar /same models, so it is nearly impossible to advise that a
particular laptop is the one, but I need a couple good starting points. Then
I can try those out and work from there.

If you have any particular experience, good or bad, with running rtp on your
laptop, please send a quick follow up to this post.

Thanks