Slighty OT Laptop Recommendation

[Rick Stevens]

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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