From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 30 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >>> Personally, I have successfully installed Mageia 3 dual-boot with   
   >>> Winblows 8 on a new hp laptop   
      
   >> Which one did you finally get?   
      
   >HP Envy dv7-7292nr.   
      
   Boy, they sure know how to pick names, don't they   
      
   >The machine has its display plus VGA and HDMI ports, and two   
   >graphic chipsets.  I think the Intel chip set is on the mother   
   >board, and the nVidia GT 650M chip set is on a card.  The primary   
   >card/display recognized is the Intel, and I cannot find anything   
   >in the BIOS to change it, nor have I found anything in the OS to   
   >select the nVidia card. (Should I ask HP if there is a jumper in   
   >the hardware to make the change?  I thought that went out years   
   >ago?)   
      
   Probably so, but I think this is some kind of confusion factor, as the   
   HP propaganda speaks only about the nVidia - perhaps one is used for   
   the on-board display (and possibly the VGA jack), and the other for   
   the HDMI output. Have you tried plugging in things to see what's on   
   those hoses?   
      
   >I am trying out the Gnome 3 desktop.  The "startgnomeclassic"   
   >version is expected to go away with version 3.8, so I am looking   
   >at whether to go with the new GNOME or KDE4, both ok but neither   
   >really attractive to me.   
      
   But it's _NEW_ and _EXCITING_ and SHINY!!!   
      
   >> I think there is a choice available  ;-)   
      
   >No doubt.  I tried fedora core, and can always fall back to that.   
   >  It has all I really need, but some of the bells and whistles of   
   >Mandriva/Mageia are nice to play with.   
      
   My problem with Fedora (19 should be out in a couple of weeks) is that   
   it's far to bleeding edge for my liking.   
      
   >This BTW is on my main machine now running Mageia 3 (i7 eight heads,   
   >ati driver for an AMD card no longer supported by AMD, etc).  Speed   
   >copying large bunches of files from one partition to anothern,   
   >from a usb external HD, and to and from my Athlon dual-core   
   >machine using nfs are markedly faster than previously.   
      
   But are you comparing apples to apples?  "Normally", NFS is going to   
   be slower because you've got the network in the way. One hopes you   
   are not still using 10BaseT, but perhaps something faster (GigE a.k.a.   
   1000BaseT, or 802.11n wireless).   As for USB, are the setups the   
   same?  USB runs at the speed of the slowest device connected, so if   
   you've got a USB2 device ("rated" speed 480 MegaBIT/sec) connected to   
   a USB3 chain ("rated" speed 5 GigaBIT/sec), you're going to run at the   
   slower speeds so that the "slow" device can understand.  Your new   
   laptop seems to have one USB2 and two USB3 ports if I'm reading the   
   propaganda sheet correctly - those would be separate chains.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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