On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:07:36 pm John Summerfield wrote:
w00t! That doesn't mean that I can yet BUY the notebook with SUSE but at least they mention it.
Personably, I'm rather partial to Thinkpads;-) IBM has supported Linux on some Thinkpads for years, and I think the Chinese crew's following suit.
Okay, thanks to you, Joachim, James and M. I'll take a look. I'm not sure I "can" buy IBM, but I'll research them. (We have agreements with various vendors, and I'm not sure one of them is IBM.)
I recently bought a used R40 2722-GDM (near the top of the R40s I think, with 1 1440x1050 low-gloss screen. I hate glossy screens, I thought they were a bad idea when IBM introduced them for the IBM PC (the CGA monitor), and I still think so. Also, while widescreens might be good for watching videos, that's not what I want to do.
Believe it or not, I need the widescreen for work. :P Seriously, our app is written with at least 1280x1024 screens in mind. Almost everyone - except for about 50 people using the touch screens - has 24" LCD widescreen monitors. Here are screens in full resolution. They don't load on my current laptop. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_test_cashier_lg.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_20071207.jpg Though we won't be watching movies - much - we will be utilizing widescreens. I *promise* not to load the full DVD version of Kaffeine/Xine on the systems. :P
Reputedly the T series have better Linux compatibility. The only problems I have are Wireless (Atheros, requires third-party mostly OSS driver), and I'm not sure whether the modem works, though Google thinks it does.
Modem? Oh - I remember those! Yeah. Honestly, I haven't used one in over five years. Do they come faster than 300 baud these days? Can I put my cordless phone into the acoustic coupler?
Toshiba actively supports Linux on its hardware too, but it's a little quieter about it.
Well, they must be! I hadn't even heard.
One of the nicer things about the Thinkpads is their Ultrabay: one can hot-remove the Optical drive and replace it with something else, a battery, a second disk drive....
Oh, _my_ R40 has the Ultranav thing, a "joystick" thing in the middle of the keyboard that one can lean on to move the mouse cursor plus three mouse buttons, all functioning under Linux. There's also the usual touchpad, with two buttons and scrolling and clicking gestures.
Ahh, the eraser. I had a DX/120 thinkpad way back when with the eraser. Very interesting. It was right before I got by blazingly fast P133 Fujitsu, on which I immediately loaded Mandrake. I just looked and they seem interesting - about $1000 less than a comparable HP. I wonder why. They do have one thing I was thinking of - a fingerprint reader. That might not be a bad idea. I wonder if there's a SUSE driver for such a thing. HOWEVER I do not see a choice of loading anything but Wintendo. :( I'll be sure and fire off an email right now... -- kai -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org