Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> Aaarg... I just bought (and will be returning) an IBM ThinkPad 1210 as
> to get X running on it is just a serious pain in the arse. =( I had
> it working once, installed OSS to get the sound card working, and now X
> refuses to work.
>
> In light of this, I am looking for recomendations of a good laptop that
> will work with Linux with a minimum of effort (hopefully) or has been
> known to run Linux with minimal tweaking.
>
> Does anyone know of such a beastie? Preferrably under $2000 if
> possible. It needs to have a CD-ROM, be about 500Mhz with a minimum of
> 32MB RAM and a 4GB or higher HDD. Doesn't need to have ethernet or
> modem built in, but sound would be nice (preferably something that
> doesn't require OSS...)
>
> Is this even feasible? I don't have the bucks to shell out for
> anything more expensive, but I'd really like to get a laptop so I can
> haul it around to demo Linux with, and this ThinkPad I'm returning
> later today just doesn't cut it.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Current Linux uptime: 3 hours 58 minutes.
In the last two years I used without any problem a Toshiba Satellite
2520CDT laptop. All version of L-M, also cooker!, run absolutely well.
There is only a small problem with its internal modem, a Lucent Tech,
because the binary drive 568 works with some caprice... K6-2, 64MB ram,
4.3 GB, floppy, CD-ROM 24x, sound YamahaOPL3, PCMCIA, infrared and so
on. I paid it about 1700$. Now, I think, a more modern but
cost-equivalent model will be surely disposable.
Bye.
