BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 31 July 2004 01:59 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:31 am, David Robertson wrote:
There's no doubt that IBM make very solid laptops but they are by no means the only Linux-friendly ones: the converse isn't necessarily true, either!
I'm running SuSE 9.1 on an HP Pavilion zd7000 and previously had an ASUS L/C3000 - no problems with either. Worked out of the box (except for wireless on the Pavilion, which is fine now, after some fiddling). Just might be worthwhile casting your net a little wider. You might want to take a look at http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
Please don't think I'm trying to put you off IBM...........!
David
Before you get to far into selecting a laptop, google on 'complaint
' and see what kind of troubles you can expect from the various makers. IBM was one of the few mfrs that didn't return a bunch of hits and horror stories when I ran the test a month or so ago. I found many BAD stories about Sony, Gateway, Dell, Compaq and HP to name a few. Caveat Emptor! Richard
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The simple thing to do would be to download the SuSE 9.1 Live CD and burn the iso to a disc. Take it to the store with you and try it on any laptop you are interested in to see how well it works. That should give you a reasonably good idea of what you are getting.
Lee
Not necessarily. That Live CD failed on 3 of 3 computers that I tried it on, including my ThinkPad, which runs SuSE 9.1 Pro very well. All of those 3 computers were also able to run the 9.0 Live Eval.