Re: Spare no expense laptop recommendations.

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I have a new-ish Dell D820 Latitude with the dual core CPU, Nvidia
Quadro video, and intel ipw3945.  It has a modular bay that can take
cdrom, extra battery, or additional cdrom.  For the most part, it has
been easier to setup and use in Linux than the 4 other Dell laptops
they have assigned to me.  This one has a 100GIG SATA disk and 1GiG
RAM.  The only truly serious problem I've had is that a modular hard
disk that is seen as an IDE device and it runs like hell. But after a
bit of blundering about, I've learned there is a trick.  The Fedora
kernel has ide support compiled in , while the SATA/scsi is modular,
so the system tries to use ide when it would be better if that modular
drive were treated as scsi. The fix there is to add to the kernel boot
line in grub.conf (ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe).  After that, the 2nd
disk works great.

I had a lot of trouble with a Dell D800 that would wake up
spontaneously from suspend to RAM and it got really hot inside the
case once.  I called Dell and they insisted that I never should have
moved a pc that was suspended and I got what I deserved.  The bosses
here say we have to use Dell, and the D820 is better than their past
models, but I'm still a bit reluctant to say it is great.

But I did a lot of comparison shopping and the Dell systems have
better monitors and video options than the others.  The Nvidia drivers
are working super, I'd never accept an ATI or Intel video after seeing
the new Nvidia Quadro.

Good luck deciding.

PJ

On 6/8/06, Peter Reed <mrdeadworry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric Donkersloot wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:34 -0400, Marc M wrote:
>>> Oh.   guess I am crossing Alienware off my list.  thanks for letting
>>> me know.
>>
>> I've forgotten your original criteria but what about the intel based
>> macbook/macbook pro?
>
> Awesome machines, and you can run OSX, linux and even Windows on them
> if you want to...easy choice
>
>>   Or when someone says they don't care about
>> expense, Sony comes to mind...
>>
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How about Linux on laptops:  http://www.linux-laptop.net/.  They have a
extensive list of laptops that run Linux.  Also, there is Linux
Certified:  http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html and
remember Goggle is your friend.
Peter

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