Slighty OT Laptop Recommendation

[Mike Hoy]

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.