Help Requested in Choosing a Power Linux Laptop/Notebook with Multimedia.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 01:34 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB
> RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full
> Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment
> Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos
> & Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some
> of my office applications 

If it's CentOS you're interested in, you're on the wrong list.  But I
bought a fairly new Asus laptop at the end of last year, and just about
everything works on it (haven't tried firewire, the multi-card reader
only manages to read SD-RAM cards, the webcam isn't usable).  Using
Ubuntu on the same laptop, the webcam does work.

Before I bought the computer, I spent quite a lot of time researching
the models that I could buy locally.  What hardware they had, and what
was known to work or not work on Linux.  I'd say that the main things to
look for would be:

Graphics chipset
Wireless chipset
Card reader chipset
Type of webcam
Audio chipset (not sure if this is the big problem it used to be)

-- 
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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