Re: Buying a New Laptop

IIRC, RealTek NICs are "dumb" in that they make the host computer do a lot of the work that is done on-card on more expensive equipment. This can be a problem if you are running both network-intensive and CPU-intensive jobs, and have a slow CPU, on any OS. Amirite? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Jim Herrmann <kclug@itdepends.com> wrote:

I'm OK with the CPU.  Is Realtek a problem with Linux?  What's the issue there?