Slighty OT Laptop Recommendation

[Richard Humphrey]

While it is a bit clunky in size and weight, my Thinkpad G40 works
really well running FC3.


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:10:01 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 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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Richard Humphrey