These brand name companies purchase their laptops from an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) such as Quanta, Compal, Wistron, Inventec, Foxconn (Hon Hai), Flextronics and Asus (now Pegatron) with together 80% market share and MiTAC, FIC, Arima, Uniwill, ECS, Tonfang Origin and Clevo (remaining 20%).Īcer/Gateway/Emachines Ĭompany founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976, renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987 Most vendor suppliers get OEM (original equipment manufacturers) to make their laptops. Rough estimate from taking a random laptop notebook what you can expect from a Native install of AROSģD tests now conducted with apps found in Demos/AROS/Mesa and run at default size (may need to View As -> Show All to see them. So consequently, be aware that driver support on native is now a decade behind linux, MacOS(TM) and Windows(TM). So support is very slow after some improvement after 2005/6 for a few years. Please bear in mind that AROS has only a few hardware driver developers, whilst Linux counts in the tens and Windows in the hundreds. Usually avoid HP and Lenovo as the wifi card cannot be swapped
Dell Latitude D-series laptops - business class machines, good support in Aros, easy to replace wifi card 2006/2007.For the tiny carry anywhere, the first bunch of Acer Aspire netbooks - rough era 2008/2009.problems, incompatibilities, faults, niggles, annoyances, environment, errors, review of setup etc) please update this information. If you have encountered differently (i.e. The following hardware has been tested with AROS and any issues have been noted.
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