Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?

[Sam Varshavchik]

David A. Wheeler writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> David A. Wheeler writes:
>> 
>>> There are a few people who sell Linux preinstalled, but the ones
>>> I found seem to have a $600+ premium.  I'd pay a $100 premium, but
>>> their premiums seem really steep to me.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>> 
>> 
>> Have you looked at http://www.laclinux.com/en/Laptop?
> 
> I hadn't, thanks for pointing them out.
> 
> I'd prefer a "named" laptop (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.), though that
> may have to fall through the cracks since they obviously
> don't want my money.

Take my word for it: tell the name brands to stick it where the sun doesn't 
shine.

> Any experience with them, or with any other such reseller?

Bought a laptop from them two years ago.  Very nice, solid, beast. 
Everything works.  Well, my only complaint is that x.org doesn't have a 
native driver for the laptop's synaptics touchpad, and the touchpad's 
default setting is hypersensitive and generates phantom clicks.  I found 
some dude's web site with a working synaptics driver for X, that finally 
turned that infernal thing off, I now use just an ordinary mouse instead of 
the touchpad.

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