From: "Vivek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > No flames from me. That pretty much sums it up - price vs. quality. Not a > > big difference either way, but Dell IS renowned for bad BIOSes. What's the > > status of IBM support for Linux in the retail market, these days? > > They actually ship some laptops with a distro on: I forget which - > even if you use a different distro, this is worth grabbing as you can > snaffle any kernel params or binary-only programs that come with. That's why I specifically mentioned 'retail' market. Dell will sell I8000s with RedHat, but only to "business" customers. I don't know if you have to make a bulk order to be a business customer, because I didn't want to spend that much on even one machine. > I didn't get linux with my A20p, because they weren't shipping at the > time, but I'd definitely buy one again - great keyboard, nice mouse > replacement (a rubber-nipple-thingy as opposed to a trackpad), great I've got pretty used to a touchpad though my last laptop was an IBM and I think I still prefer the "rubber-nipple-thingy ". It still takes me a minute longer to play a game of Mahjong with the touchpad, though :-) > screen, and nice keyboard (for a laptop). Oh, and 3 mouse buttons. With the latest driver, you can do amazing things on the synaptics touchpad. All I really use it for is the middle button. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
