OK folks, I wrote this article for BCM with a lot of fear and trepidation. While I have been involved with using computers on the road since the early Kaypro days (remember CPM?),
I just refuse to believe in the myth that some types are better than others. And have empirical proof of my assertions.
a 700mhz AMD with 2Gb Ram, 500Mb Hdd, 128Mb NVidia video card, and Win 2K Pro.Then I went back to my first choice, Linux and currently run a Debian clone, with a 1.5Tb Raid +0, +1, a main Hdd of 500Mb, an NVidia of 512Mb and an AMD CPU running at 3.8Ghz.