Off topic-What notebook to get

[Marc]

I have used a lot of Dells including the D600 and D610.  I no longer like
Dell laptops because their keyboards bother me.  The only one that I would
buy now would be a really little model they make with the widescreen.  I
forget the model name but it it might've been something like a D700.  The
reason I like that is because it is lightweight and yet has a pretty wide
screen for its small size.
Toshiba has some really thin models.  I would recommend getting an extra
battery if the user can't afford to be down and/or take time to plug in.  I
would also recommend 2Gigs of ram.  l like Thinkpads although I am not crazy
about the mouse that some of the older ones have had.


Marc



On 3/20/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:34 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> > Our youngest son will soon be in the market for a laptop/notebook.  I
> > would appreciate the latest skinny on what's out there that seems to
> > provide good value.
> >
> > He'll need wifi for sure and will probably use some form of (gasp!)
> > Windows as he hasn't any technical inclination whatsoever.  That means
> > security will be an issue.
> >
> > Games are not a big deal but some decent capability should be built in.
> >
> > I should mention that he is 31 years old to sort of frame the situation
> > more completely.
>
> Well, gee.  I've used Linux on several laptops with pretty good
> success.  I think the consensus on most lists have the Acer and
> IBM (Lenova) laptops in the lead.  Personally, I've used a Fujitsu C3200
> series in the past and I'm using an older HP Pavillion zv6300 (AMD
> Athlon 64) currently.  I'm running Fedora Core 6 on the laptop, but I
> have run Ubuntu, CentOS and RHEL on it as well.
>
> The most common issues remain the wifi chipsets and modems.  Both of the
> laptops I've used have the Broadcom wifi chipset and I've never been
> fond of the bcm43xx driver.  It often has problems with WEP encryption
> and stuff like that.  I stick with ndiswrapper and the Winblows driver.
> Most laptops use a soft modem and drivers can be a problem.  There's
> better support for the Conexant modems than any of the others, but your
> mileage may vary.  I'd suggest you check http://www.linux-laptop.net for
> info on any specific model you may be interested in.
>
> If you get an AMD Athlon/X2 or Intel dual-core machine, your son may be
> able to use Xen to run Windows and Linux simultaneously.  Note that you
> must have hardware virtualization to run Windows under Xen.  The other
> option for simultaneous operation is to get and use VMware.
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