Tom Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My goal here is to get the fastest, lightest, Linux compatible > laptop out there. Something with a "thin" form-factor and with long > battery life, but with the horsepower to be a desktop replacement > when placed in a docking station. (I don't want much, do I?) Since > I'm in the "dreaming" stage right now, my question is this...
i like mine... ;-) it's a Dell Latitude CS 400XT: Pentium II 400MHz, 256MB of RAM, 12GB disk, 1024x768 video, floppy and cdrom are external, about 4lbs. it has a full-size keyboard and between that and the screen it beat out the Viao for me. i run Debian, a bunch of servers, VMware, xmms, etc and am very happy. No compatibility problems whatsoever, but the hotswap port isn't _completely_ supported yet (that is, you can plug the cdrom in, but you have to rmmod ide-probe; modprobe ide-probe to get it to work, which means having IDE modular, which means initrd. you can of course hotplug the floppy drive since PC's always have a floppy controller... ;-) it was around $2100, and i ditched my 9lb gateway solo like an old sock. ian -- ---- Ian Soboroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian
