On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:30, Oleg wrote: > On Monday 07 October 2002 03:29 pm, Walter Tautz wrote: > > built in cdrom and floppy, no stupid docking stations...sony vaio...yikes > > better yet a built in dvd drive.... > > > > needs to be able to run vmware so that windows can be run... > > > > lightweight, good sized screen, great resolution, > > > > Probably i386 arch would be the best since I'm not sure VMware > > will work on non i386 arch... > > > > Powersave mode has to work easily in linux..... > > > > It just has to work without a lot of hassles of looking for obscure > > patches.. > > > > :-) > > > > price is the least important but it would be nice to not to spend too > > much.... not more than 2000US > > > > Walter > > I'm shopping for a laptop that would run Linux perfectly myself. And AFAIK > finding such a laptop is not an easy task. My list of requirements is quite a > bit longer than yours though, e.g. I want the laptop itself to be reliable, > and the tech support to be good. I also wouldn't buy a laptop that does not > have a CDRW/DVD combo drive, has less than 32 MB dedicated Video RAM (nVidia > or ATI), does not have P4M CPU or DDR266 RAM. (This will essentially be my > only computer for a while) If you are on-campus, WiFi is probably a must. > > If laptop reliability is important to you too, take a look at this survey: > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,364590,00.asp > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com can also be useful, but if you see someone > saying "everything works" without backing that up, do NOT believe him. > > AFAIK the most reliable, and probably more Linux-compatible than others, are > IBM Thinkpads, but I'm not sure if I could live with a Trackpoint (OTOH > Ultranav's are heavy and very expensive) > > Currently, my prime candidate for purchase is Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110, but > I'm still looking into details. > > Cheers, > Oleg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My laptop is close to "Everything works". The specs are not quite what you want but the newer model does.
Toshiba 3005-S307 1.13 P3M 256Mb RAM (upgraded to 512Mb) GeForce2 Go w/s-video & composite out (16Mb but I've seen 32Mb models) 30Gig HD DVD-CDR/CDRW combo drive 3 usb ports 2 pcmcia sockets rt8139 nic (realtek, supported by 2.2 & 2.4 kernels) IrDA (smc module works with it) SmartMedia reader (built-in kernel doesn't see it at all) 14.1 screen The only thing that doesn't work to it's fullest is the sm reader. I'm not worried about it since I don't own anything that uses smartmedia. Preformence and battery life are real good with this laptop. Quake3 about 150 +/- fps DVD play back flawless, even when running on batteries. Battery life is about 3 hours. I have played a full DVD and then surfed for about an hour and the battery nag alarm never went off. /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.55 seconds =232.73 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.73 seconds = 17.16 MB/sec not bad for a laptop, and one I have had for 6 months now. Never any problems with it, no repairs or anything. The only thing I have noticed is that you must use the ide-pci kernel to boot the debian install cd's or it locks up when loading the 'md' driver. Hope some of this helps. - Jayson Garrell
