On Wednesday 18 October 2006 06:56, Micha wrote: > While TP are well known for good battery performance and solid > hardware crafting (but Lenovo may level the niveau now, probably > even IBM would have been urged to do so), many people are looking > for a desktop replacement which mostly is on main power and has > good multimedia capabilities, and a wide screen. Ideally, something > in the way of a Apple Powerbook.... > > It's no bad idea to also look up what machines are shipped with > preinstalled Linux. For example, http://www.emperorlinux.com/ offers > Thinkpads, Dell Latitude, Sony Vaio, and Sharp Actius; some of these > with WUXGA (1920x1200) wide screen. I'd recommend a dual-core > CPU in any case, if only because they produce less heat and should be > more quiet, under comparable load. Tuxmobil maintains lists at > http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html and > http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_manufacturer.html > (some links are obsolete as it's a rapid marked anyway). > > Rather icky seemed to be, at least in the past, Acer for their > special BIOS features, perhaps someone can confirm that. IMHO, opinion it's a good idea to buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled, specially if they give you online support. A few month ago when I buyed my laptop, I did some preliminary test to see if it can run linux on it (video acceleration,screen resolution). I was happy at the moment with the results, but it turned out it wasn't enough.
My experience is that configuring a laptop could be a long and tedious task. I don't mind doing so, but maybe is because i'm a little patient. Just doing a little google search a found this link: http://mcelrath.org/laptops.html Maybe is a good start. Regards, Yoanis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
