Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[matt.wong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Matt Wong)]

Hi Tim

> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> 
>   Thanks, that's helpful for other notebooks I was looking at. The one
> CompUSA has is the 1675CDS.

You should check out the link for the Toshiba Satellite 1620CDS and
Toshiba Satellite 1640CDT: http://www.sslug.dk/~frank/toshiba1620.shtml

They should be pretty close.
 
>   Perhaps a better question for everyone here is - if you were looking for
> a lowend notebook (under $1,500) that worked well with Linux, which would you
> recommend?

Not too sure here.  Perhaps a second hand one might be an option.
 
> > I'm running SuSE 6.3 on a Toshiba Satellite 4060XCDT and have had no
> > issues.
> > The above site was of some assistance for sound and an X Server for 6.1,
> > but the SuSE Knowledge DB also provided me with some answers regarding
> > my keyboard locking up on boot.
> 
>   Thanks. Over all, are you satisified with you Linux Laptop experience?

Yep, well it was either run windows (no flame war please) or get linux
working on a laptop =)

Matt


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