Slighty OT Laptop Recommendation
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Feb 1 23:10:01 UTC 2005
Mike Hoy wrote:
> i'm curently researching laptops as well.
>
> ibm's are highly recommended, but use ATI stuff. But they have the best
> keyboards and the owner of Emperor Linux told me flat out that anything
> after a T-21 is gonna work well with Linux. He also will put LInux on
> your laptop for 350 bucks if it's a model that he uses in his store. His
> people write a special kernel just for the laptop and the distro you
> want. I believe he supports FC3. so if you buy a IBM t-21 or later and
> then have trouble you can pay them 350 bucks for an install and it comes
> with a recovery partition and a user's manual specific to your model and
> distro.
>
> i think the price is too high personally. But the IBM is worth it. The
> keyboard alone has sold me.
>
> I bought a compq r3000 presario and have it all working fine, but i
> wouldn't do it again had i had the chance to. he offered to install
> linux on it for me but said it would cost more thatn 350 bucks because
> he has no experience writing kernels for compaq/hp.
>
> bottom line:
>
> buy a IBM t-21 or later
> or a dell with nvidia card
> don't buy HP/Compaq - not that they're impossible to setup, mine works,
> but major headache
> also check out emperor linux site and give them a call!
> talk with the technician that answers the phone. they don't mind
> discussing which laptop you should buy if you may consider letting the
> isntall linux for you. It can be a real education.
I'm using a Fujitsu Lifebook C2220. Works great under FC3 except for
the need for ndiswrapper to drive the Broadcom wireless.
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