On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:40:06PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 2:14 pm, florian wrote: > > hi! > > > > im currently searching a nice laptop which works well > > with debian. basically it should have a at least 15" big > > screen and at least 1400x1050 px resolution.. > > > > would be also great if it would not be too heavy and > > big.. anybody got an recommendation for that? > > > > do the pentium-m chips from intel work with debian/linux > > yet? is the wlan chip supported? > > > > thanks alot! > > > > ciao! > > florian > > > Hi, > > I recently purchased a Sager 8886 from DiscountLaptops.com. It is > heavy, but has a 15.7" screen with a numeric keypad. You can now get a > Sager with a 16" screen. I have an ATI Mobility 9000 which is supposed > to be supported by XFree 8.3 (I am running 4.2 and using vesa driver). > > This particular laptop has a 2.8 G P4 chip 1G of RAM and 2 hard drives. > The stock Debian kernel 2.4.20 supports everything on the laptop with > the exception of the windmodem. The tv tuner card works, the > detachable mp3 player works, the two hard drives work, sound, cd > burner, etc. No MS windows on this laptop. > > I develop software and needed a fast computer with fast compile times > (Lots of c++ code). Most of the time, this is sitting on my desk at > home. Once a week, I take it up to work, so I don't mind the 12lbs +, > since I am not carrying it around much. The battery life is short (2 > hours, but mine is always plugged in). It does generate a lot of heat, > but it sits on my desk 99.9% of the time, so this is not an issue. > > The pros: > fast, has a lot of stuff that works right off the bat with Debian. > > The cons: > heavy, short battery life, generates fair bit of heat. > > It is my understanding that there are just a handful of laptop > manufacturers out there. Sager is one of them. I could have purchased > MS Windows but didn't have to and the purchase price was discounted. > > Essentially this machine is a desktop replacement that is mobile enough > that I can take it places if I need to. I wouldn't want to be using > this on a plane, or have to carry it around all the time (which I > don't), so the limitations don't come up in my particular case. > > I would have preferred a mac, since I am a 20+ year Apple guy, but for > my needs, this laptop is faster compiling my codes and running it. I > have a 466 Mhz G3 sitting right next to me and it is substantially > slower (greater than 4X) than my laptop in compilations and run time. > There was nothing on the market from Apple that had the characteristics > I needed. > > John Schmidt >
I've had a few dell laptops and now am using a Dell Inspiron 4100 with the ATI chipset. The ATI was not supported until X4.1 I think but perhaps it was later. I lost track. The 4100 does not higher resolutions/screendepths like you want; but it works pretty well for me overall. I also have a little Dell Latitude ls which is the superlight laptop built a few years ago Secondarily, during a previous life I got to play with a lot of IBM Thinkpad computers and got linux running on them one way or another. My favorite laptop had to be the IBM Thinkpad T21 just for its versatility. I think the T21's shipped with different screen sizes. The other things I really liked about the T21 family was the sound card in Linux. I think it ships with a Crystal Spectrum sound card. The T21s are older laptops but I think they run Linux really well. They have a lighter heft but the screen is gorgeous. I have also used a Thinkpad 600e. I had issues with it overall but it seemed to work most times okay. Just my thots though :) -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
