Re: buying a laptop


Subject: Re: buying a laptop
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 00:16:46 AKST


FYI: The shutdown/reboot hiccup you mentioned was also present on a
friends HP Laptop (don't know the model) using RedHat.

Anthony

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 23:08, William Bouterse wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:56:48 -0900 (AKST)
> "Peter Q. Olsson" <olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello all-
> >
> > I am thinking of buying a new laptop to replace an aging model. At work I have a
> > Dell Inspiron 8000 dual boot setup. Great video and all that, but 1) a little
> > heavy, and 2) it came with an onboard "win" modem that I have never been able to
> > get to work. ( $#%^* win stuff!)
> >
> > Any suggestions out there on laptops that are easy to load linux onto and do not
> > have "win" problems? I would like to hear from happy linux laptop owners.
> >
> Have you checked out these folks...They have been very supportive
> of Linux machines in the past and I continue to hear positive things
> about them.....I do not own one of their notebooks but would like
> to give them a try myself in the near future....
>
> http://www.qlilinux.com/products/laptops/index.html
>
> The winmodems are easily bypassed by a good pccard modem anyway
> at least on the notebooks I have used, so that should be less of an issue.
> USB has worked for the later IBM and Dell machines I have seen but
> I am using kernel 2.4x from Mandrake which seems to give excellant
> USB support....The sony's do work well for some but it is very dependant
> on the paticular model #..Some drivers proprietary some not......
> for example; some have excelant firewire usage others no go...
> Actually HP is beginning to be an excellant buy and other than the
> winmodem on most is beginning to be very workable with Linux.....
>
> Power management seems to be another bugaboo, yet some work quite well.
> For instance on an older IBM 600X I have been using lately, I installed
> Mandrake 8.2 betas with amazing success, everything installed and was
> recognized, even the USB SmartMedia RW and the linmodem web site did have
> drivers for the modem but I don't like"fake-modems" and used a pccard one
> instead...Power Management "almost" worked perfectly... All the basic
> functions worked fine except one peculiar glitch whereby you could not
> reboot only shutdown.......(but that could be a Mandrake hiccup?)
>
> Good Luck and let us know how it works out
>
>
> --
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna, Ak.
>



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