Mike Hoy wrote:
i'm curently researching laptops as well.
ibm's are highly recommended, but use ATI stuff. But they have the best
keyboards and the owner of Emperor Linux told me flat out that anything
after a T-21 is gonna work well with Linux. He also will put LInux on
your laptop for 350 bucks if it's a model that he uses in his store. His
people write a special kernel just for the laptop and the distro you
want. I believe he supports FC3. so if you buy a IBM t-21 or later and
then have trouble you can pay them 350 bucks for an install and it comes
with a recovery partition and a user's manual specific to your model and
distro.
i think the price is too high personally. But the IBM is worth it. The
keyboard alone has sold me.
I bought a compq r3000 presario and have it all working fine, but i
wouldn't do it again had i had the chance to. he offered to install
linux on it for me but said it would cost more thatn 350 bucks because
he has no experience writing kernels for compaq/hp.
bottom line:
buy a IBM t-21 or later
or a dell with nvidia card
don't buy HP/Compaq - not that they're impossible to setup, mine works,
but major headache
also check out emperor linux site and give them a call!
talk with the technician that answers the phone. they don't mind
discussing which laptop you should buy if you may consider letting the
isntall linux for you. It can be a real education.
I'm using a Fujitsu Lifebook C2220. Works great under FC3 except for
the need for ndiswrapper to drive the Broadcom wireless.
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