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However, you have to wonder about the wisdom of putting a $1,200 graphics board in a system whose real forte is multiprocess performance. If I were purchasing this system, it would probably be in a 4U rackmount configuration for use as a smartmedia server, and I'd stick in the cheapest graphics card that would do smartmedia the job. On the other extreme, the Polywell PolyNote MXM915AS is positioning itself as a turnkey Linux notebook solution, offering a dual-boot Pentium M with SUSE on the Linux side. Unfortunately, my out-of-the-box experience was not smartmedia a happy one. My first criterion in looking at Linux notebooks is how well the hardware functions as shipped, and the PolyNote failed that test. From all appearances, someone had just stuck a stock copy of SUSE 9.3 on the laptop, and shipped it out. The wireless networking didn't function at all, and the CD drive was misconfigured so that doing a mount /media/cdrom failed.
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