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... >> >> -- Les Mikesell >> lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx >> >> >> >> --fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, > > Eric Donkersloot > System Engineer > > --MarketXS B.V. > H. Walaardt Sacréstraat 413 > 1117 BM Schiphol Oost > The Netherlands > T +31 (0)20 5025800 > F +31 (0)20 5025801 > M +31 (0)6 22996452 > E eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxxxxx > I www.marketxs.com > > > > --fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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