Laptop recomendations

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I have an ACER 53xx series and although i dont have FC6 on it (Xandros 4 and Mandriva 2k7) I can say that I have been VERY happy w/ the pc, and the price.
 
www.tigerdirect.com
 
J


----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Bowden <john.bowden43 at blueyonder.co.uk> 
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:46 am 
Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations 
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com> 

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "alan" <alan at clueserver.org> 
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com> 
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:14 PM 
> Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations 
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: 
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 
> >>> Also, know that Dell provides NO HELP to the linux community, in 
> >>> contrast to HP. At least, as far as PDA's go. I'm sorry that I 
> >>> purchased a x50v and swore that it would be the last of my Dell 
> >>> hardware. But I was stupid and gave them my money for this 
> lappy. I'd 
> >>> suggest pressuring Dell by NOT buying their equipment. 
> >> 
> >> I have a Dell Latitude D800. It works quite well, except for a few 
> >> buttons. But, then I don't need them anyway, so no loss. The only 
> >> thing I don't like is the 1920x1200 res LCD. I thought it 
> would be 
> >> nice, but the resolution is too high for the 15.4" LCD. 
> > 
> > I have a 1920x1200 display on my HP. Its main purpose is to 
> make people 
> > drool. I actually like having the resolution that tiny. I just 
> wish that 
> > they would have put more video ram in ti. As for the buttons, 
> there is a 
> > mapping utility in X that I used to map them to applications in 
> Gnome. 
> > Worked pretty well. (Still don't use them, but I could map them.) 
> > 
> >> Though my Dell laptop experience has been good, I'm going to be 
> getting>> a business grade HP or Lenovo laptop next time. I'm 
> leaning heavily 
> >> towards HP at the moment. 
> > 
> > The thing that convinced me to buy an HP was their 3 year 
> warrenty. They 
> > will fix any damage to the laptop during that period. I have 
> had to use 
> > it only twice, but it was well worth it. (Once for a dead power 
> brick. 
> > Once when I got the PCMCIA ejector button caught on my laptop 
> bag and 
> > ripped it out.) I would recommend buying an extra hard drive as 
> well. HP 
> > will reformat and reinstall Windows on your machine every time 
> it goes in 
> > for warrenty. (And not even an updated and patched copy, but 
> the original 
> > disk image!) 
> > 
> > As for device support... I have gotten pretty much everything 
> working on 
> > my HP. The Winmodem is an unknown, since I do not use it. (As 
> well as 
> > having a very good PCMCIA modem back when they made such 
> things.) There 
> > is also a memory adapter that I just need firmware for. Of 
> course, I 
> > bought it two and a half years ago, so it has had time for the 
> drivers to 
> > catch up with it... 
> > 
> > -- 
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> explains 
> > nothing." 
> > - University of Utah bioengineering professor 
> Gregory 
> > Clark 
> > 
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> > 
> >From what peole are telling me on and off list, I will give Dell 
> a miss. 
> Still not shure about the Lenovo build quality, so the choice 
> seems to be HP 
> or Acer. Thanks for the advice and keep it comming as I will make 
> my final 
> decision tomorrow. The second hard drive tip is handy to know as I 
> should 
> think that most of the manufactures do somthing similar 
> 
> 
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