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

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:00 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 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.

Whatever happened to the "lunchboxes", that used much cheaper standard
gear inside, with a built-in LED screen and a fold down almost REAL
keyboard? Cheap to fix, just a huge honking battery to add to the weight
was the only real issue. Anyone using one successfully? Ric

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