On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Senectus . wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:58:13 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day > > <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > anymore. frankly, thinkpads are starting to look really appealing. > > > > Being a Thinkpad owner I can tell you that Fedora Core 3 T3 install > > was flawless on my A31p. > > > > It picked up every device (including modem, burner and wireless) and > > configured them all perfectly on its own. > > > > Its also worth noting that this model is certified by Suse... > > i've always known that thinkpads run linux well. It was a hard choice for me between the Thinkpad and getting something with an AMD64 chipset. The AMD64 won. I have an HP zv5000 with an AMD 3700+ processor. The Thinkpad would have cost me about $1000 more as well. > now if only they'd > stop running those ads recommending windows xp, and stop putting those > stupid "designed with crappy xp operating system in mind" stickers on > their systems ... sigh. My HP had one of those as well. It now resides just above the flush handle on my toilet. (Thanks to Keith Lofstrom for the idea.)
