Buying a New Laptop

[David Nicol]

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 at itdepends.com> wrote:
> I'm OK with the CPU.  Is Realtek a problem with Linux?  What's the issue
> there?