<BODY>I have an ACER 53xx series and although i dont have FC6 on it (Xandros 4 and Mandriva 2k7) I can say that I have been VERY happy w/ the pc, and the price. <A href="http://www.tigerdirect.com">www.tigerdirect.com</A> J ----- Original Message ----- From: John Bowden <john.bowden43@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:46 am Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "alan" <alan@clueserver.org> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:14 PM > Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations > > > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> Also, know that Dell provides NO HELP to the linux community, in > >>> contrast to HP. At least, as far as PDA's go. I'm sorry that I > >>> purchased a x50v and swore that it would be the last of my Dell > >>> hardware. But I was stupid and gave them my money for this > lappy. I'd > >>> suggest pressuring Dell by NOT buying their equipment. > >> > >> I have a Dell Latitude D800. It works quite well, except for a few > >> buttons. But, then I don't need them anyway, so no loss. The only > >> thing I don't like is the 1920x1200 res LCD. I thought it > would be > >> nice, but the resolution is too high for the 15.4" LCD. > > > > I have a 1920x1200 display on my HP. Its main purpose is to > make people > > drool. I actually like having the resolution that tiny. I just > wish that > > they would have put more video ram in ti. As for the buttons, > there is a > > mapping utility in X that I used to map them to applications in > Gnome. > > Worked pretty well. (Still don't use them, but I could map them.) > > > >> Though my Dell laptop experience has been good, I'm going to be > getting>> a business grade HP or Lenovo laptop next time. I'm > leaning heavily > >> towards HP at the moment. > > > > The thing that convinced me to buy an HP was their 3 year > warrenty. They > > will fix any damage to the laptop during that period. I have > had to use > > it only twice, but it was well worth it. (Once for a dead power > brick. > > Once when I got the PCMCIA ejector button caught on my laptop > bag and > > ripped it out.) I would recommend buying an extra hard drive as > well. HP > > will reformat and reinstall Windows on your machine every time > it goes in > > for warrenty. (And not even an updated and patched copy, but > the original > > disk image!) > > > > As for device support... I have gotten pretty much everything > working on > > my HP. The Winmodem is an unknown, since I do not use it. (As > well as > > having a very good PCMCIA modem back when they made such > things.) There > > is also a memory adapter that I just need firmware for. Of > course, I > > bought it two and a half years ago, so it has had time for the > drivers to > > catch up with it... > > > > -- > > "Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence > explains > > nothing." > > - University of Utah bioengineering professor > Gregory > > Clark > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@redhat.com > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > >From what peole are telling me on and off list, I will give Dell > a miss. > Still not shure about the Lenovo build quality, so the choice > seems to be HP > or Acer. Thanks for the advice and keep it comming as I will make > my final > decision tomorrow. The second hard drive tip is handy to know as I > should > think that most of the manufactures do somthing similar > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > </BODY>