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I really hope that this changes in the future with the release of Blue Lion, but that is on 3Q of 2016.
I'm giving up my desktop PC. Or the PC is giving me up. Or I'm giving up eCs after about 25 years!!
So far I have had desktops, but I think it is stupid to buy a new one. I need a laptop where I can install both OS2/eCs and Win10. The short question is: what do you recommend.
I am using programs like Scribus (does not work any more under eCs), GenealogyJ and a lot of picture handling. I don't mention the programs like Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, PMView etc. I use the PC every day and often for many hours.
They might not be new but there are a couple of laptops with eComStation pre-installed.Thanks for the mention. I've got the last laptops to support WiFi on eCS. Even so, they are old. I'm not interested in Windows 10. I use an iPhone instead. I'm more interested in interoperability between devices. FWIW, buy a good OS/2 machine and maybe a Windows 10 phone if you must have Windows.
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It would be nice to get a computer with eComStation or Blue Lion pre-installed.
From my position here reading your problems it sounds as if you have a very messed up system.
OK, I don't have eCS but we use the OS/2 version it is based on.
Scribus v1.4.5 works without any problems and even our Epson flat bed USB scanners work with Tame.
Now the question is what size laptop do you want and how portable does it have to be? Then you need to consider how you connect to your peripherals (scanner, printer etc.), do you use wireless or a wired connection?
One thing I am wondering about is why you would want slurp10 (what win10 is called in most IT department because of its reporting everything you do back to Redmond). If you do get a notebook with 10 on it it is very unlikely to allow you to install anything else because the UEFI lockdown.
Sorry I can't be more helpful but you need to define exactly what you want to do and what programs you want to run then look for hardware specifications that will support that.
I doubt that you can get a new laptop that'll take a new install of OS/2 (eCS, AROS) and be worth using. Too many things unsupported.Thank you.
One option is to find a Linux friendly laptop, install something like Linux Mint and run eCS and Win10 in virtual machines.
Win 10 has so much wrong with it, from the spying to the rolling updates that you have to pretty well take that running it in a virtual machine is safer. Easy to roll back and can be used only when really needed.
eCS gets the benefits of the hardware being translated to supported hardware. USB3 is seen as USB2, the wireless is seen as a regular network, similar with the video.
Martin send to me this in this foro :
That the machine/processor is 64bits it is not a problem. A 32bits can run on a 64bits processor, for the majority of PCs I was able to try.
To be honest, I can not know which modern laptop model to recommend, I can only dare to say:
- Check if the BIOS has UEFI legacy mode available. You will need put UEFI on Legacy mode if you want OS/2-eCS to boot.
- I recommend that the machine has V-TX .. or AMD-V, in case you want to run VM's (for example OS/2 as guest on Windows host).
I think you will have hard time finding a modern Wifi card that is compatible. We really require new drivers about it.
For the moment some idea is to get a laptop that allows you to remove the wifi card and install an older one buying it from ebay. (and that may also be a lottery)
I really hope that this changes in the future with the release of Blue Lion, but that is on 3Q of 2016.
My opinion:
Lenovo or Hp, i7, 4gb ram minimun, nvidia more mb better, and leave some money to upgrade with www.Arcanoae.com
At this point I am thinking of using only OS / 2 with a VitualBox as guest xp or win10. Although for now I am using dual boot.
Saludos
Hi Einar,I'm giving up my desktop PC. Or the PC is giving me up. Or I'm giving up eCs after about 25 years!!
So far I have had desktops, but I think it is stupid to buy a new one. I need a laptop where I can install both OS2/eCs and Win10. The short question is: what do you recommend.
I am using programs like Scribus (does not work any more under eCs), GenealogyJ and a lot of picture handling. I don't mention the programs like Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, PMView etc. I use the PC every day and often for many hours.
In what way does Scribus not work under OS/2 any more?
Cheers,
Paul.