Terje J. Hanssen a écrit :

Hello everyone,

I'm planning for my possibly first laptop to replace my PC/workstation which currently run dualboot Suse Linux 9.3 Pro/Windows 2k.

My two questions first before the somewhat long background below:

1) Suggestions to "state of the art" powerful, multimedia laptop models or mobile, graphical workstations suited for Suse Linux 9.3 Pro?

2) For me it looks like Linux currently more shortcomings on laptops than on desktops. I would therefore like to hear experiences +/- and suggestions with regards to Suse Linux 9.x support on laptops?

Background:

The time comes closer when I need to replace both my office workstation and my home PC. While waiting for the right technology (Xen 3.0) to run both Linux & Winapps, I've just started investigating if one single multimedia laptop or portable workstation can fill both my mentioned needs, plus additional mobility on the road. Actually I have no experience with laptops, because this previous has'n been actual topic for me.

The unit has to be powerful enough to run medium Cad graphic and engineering applications beside usual office tasks, and include mobilphone web access. In practice I suppose to move the unit daily between my office and home, plug the unit to a stationary larger screen, separate keyboard and mouse on each location in addition to network, local scanner and camera. Maybe this can be achieved easy with a stationry docking station or stand on each location.

However, currently there looks to be quite few vendors that (venture to) offer laptop support or sertification for Linux. Often the most powerful and interesting hardware (price/performance) from known and large vendors instead promotes the web logo "We recommend Windows XP" (only).

References:

A cross-section of my current collected urls that looks interesting: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_m70?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=viewstab#tabtop

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/sme/products/mobile/notebooks/celsius_h.html

http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html http://theendlessnow.com/M70/m70-suse.html http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2564 http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/download.html http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Mobile-Guide/html/

Rgds Terje J. Hanssen

Hello, I've a HP ZD8000 laptop working very well and fast with 9.3. I would suggest that you choose a laptop with a Nvidia card and not with an ATI card. Nvidia supports very well Linux with 3D and TV out. With ATI, I'm unable to get my 1440x900 resolution with their driver. Michel.

Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

Hello everyone,

I'm planning for my possibly first laptop to replace my PC/workstation which currently run dualboot Suse Linux 9.3 Pro/Windows 2k.

My two questions first before the somewhat long background below:

1) Suggestions to "state of the art" powerful, multimedia laptop models or mobile, graphical workstations suited for Suse Linux 9.3 Pro?

2) For me it looks like Linux currently more shortcomings on laptops than on desktops. I would therefore like to hear experiences +/- and suggestions with regards to Suse Linux 9.x support on laptops?

ThinkPads tend to be good. I have an R31 that works well. Also, I recently read that HP is selling some Linux loaded notebooks in Africa, so they're likely OK with Linux too.