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Showing posts with label Best. Show all posts

24 April, 2009

AMD Turion Ultra... Still not in India

AMD provide various Mobile Processor
including Turion Ultra, Turion X2,
Athlon and more.
I was searching for laptop, which is
based on AMD. I collected various resources,
which are following (would like to share, so
never lost:) )
Processor Detail:
Turion Ultra ZM - L2: 2 x 1 MiB, HT: 1800 MHz, Power: 32-35 W, speed: 2.1-2.5Ghz
Turion RM- L2: 2 x 512 KiB, HT: 1800 MHz, Power: 31-35 W, speed: 2.0-2.2Ghz
Athlon QL - L2: 2 x 512 KiB, HT: 18000 MHz, Power: 25-35W, speed: 1.9-2.1Ghz
Turion 64 X2 TL- L2: 2 x 512 KiB, HT: 1800 MHz, Power: 31-35 W, speed: 1.8-2.4Ghz
Athlon 64 X2 TK - L2: 2 x 256 KiB, HT: 1800 MHz, Power: 31-35 W, speed: 1.7-1.9Ghz
(All are Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V ready)
More Detail Read Here

Available Laptop: AMD showing big list
of laptop here and even you can filter to
AMD Turion Ultra, but outside USA, there
are very few available. (As in India, only
HP provide AMD laptop with only selected
Hardware (precofigured).)
Few Laptops from HP are Here
1) HP TouchSmart tx2z: AMD Turion ZM-82 (2.1Ghz)
12'', ATI Radeon HD 3200 - BEST in Price ~ $1000

2) HP Pavilion dv3z: AMD Turion X2 RM-74, 13''
ATI Radeon HD 3200. - Full Keyboard ~$850
3) HP Pavilion dv2z: AMD Athlon Neo Processor 1.6Ghz
(better than Intel Neo), 12''
ATI Radeon HD 3410
More than Atom, but not notebook ~$750
4) HP Pavilion dv6z: AMD Turion RM-74, 16''
ATI Radeon HD 3200, Big Screen ~$763

Other are Provide by Toshiba, but those are
hidden (not directly accessble from Website,
but with google).

Search is continue and Hope to cutomize the
system with Turion Ultra ZM-86, which is not
directly available in India yet.

03 April, 2008

Windows Vista and Linux: Software Issue or Hardware?

This was first time, when I got chance to work
with Windows Vista. My Friend Felix Brought
his Dell Inspration 1420 with Windows Vista
(pre-installed).
He was trying to install Fedora with Vista, but
when Installed fedora, it was installed Boot loader
(GRUB) in MBR, Windows was selected by default (which
is expected), but when it is selected ("Other") from
Grub, Vista Failed to Boot.
Again he installed Windows Vista without removing
Linux,It worked for Windows Vista (as it replace
MBR).
Now during searching for Windows Vista + Grub,
we found that there is Software "EasyBCD", which
can install Linux/Mac Boot-loader to Windows Boot
Manger.
Installed, configured as mentioned, but Failed.
now 'Windows Boot Manger' failed to Boot Linux,
showing some technical Error.

wasted lot of time to find solution. It was not common
issue, because I installed OpenSUSE 10.3 on Rajesh's
Machine, which also had Windows Vista.

Final continue with Searching for solution, I found
something regarding BIOS Setting. Oh, yes, how
I forgot this.
it brought Signal Green to mind. SATA is making problem??

Dell provide SATA as AHCI mode default in BIOS, which
was necessary for New "Flash" feature. I have never
heard about this. by Disabling, when install fedora,
it was again showing error.
Chain loader failed work again. Try to check what was
error, it was showing error "No Loader Found"
why? at Grub, pressed 'e', it showing

----------
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,1)
----------
why (hd0,1), when Vista has separte Boot partition on
/dev/sda1 (Other than where it is install, not 'C').
Yes, this was strange, but it is true now.
when used following line instead,

chainloader (hd0,0)

it worked, yes, it worked. and I enjoyed very
much to fix this issue. This was today full
day research.

will try to search whether that "AHCI" and "ATA"
mode change helped to fix this or not.