The Vaio line isn't particularly standards-based, which is irritating from a linux perspective, and I think that's what most of the complaints are about. I like the metal case, and (I'll admit it) I like the look of the thing. It's also small, light, and reliable. I had very little problem getting debian to coexist happily with windows.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Larry Colen wrote: > It's funny. I've gotten several emails either extolling the virtues of > Sony laptops, or warning me away from them as they are horrible, > unreliable, evil machines. > > Is it a case that Sony outsources their machines, some model lines are > well built and others are crap? I've got a PCG fx-190k that seems to > be pretty solid, except that both the original and the replacement > hard drives make way too much noise. Speaking of which, I'm planning > on solving the noise problem and the space problem by putting in a > larger (60g?) hard drive, with the plan of triple booting: Doze, > Debian and RedHat (I'll be able to boot it in a configuration to annoy > anyone). I'm interested in suggestions for good harddrives, and good > places to get them. > > Larry > > -- > I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to > listen to. Oldies stations that play the "new" music I used to complain about. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
