On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 19:31, Alex wrote:
1. 15 - 17" Display 2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is fine as long as it's AMD 3. 1 GB Ethernet controller 4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with Linux without excessive headaches. 5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I can live with ATI Radeon. 6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have older and slower DDR2 RAM. 7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors.
I bought a used Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 3910 for my girlfriend, and it works great with openSUSE 11.2. It's really an install and forget laptop... but it's rather big. It has a dual core T3400 64 bit CPU (2.16GHz), 18 inch display, 250GB hard drive, and 4GB Ram. Probably the only "issue" with the laptop is that it has an Intel GMA X4500HD video card. That's a problem if you want to do any gaming.. for normal desktop/office work... it's fine. Installing openSUSE is as easy as popping in the DVD and starting the install. You can take all defaults, and on the reboot everything will be set up and working. WiFi works with zero tweaking. Video is set up to the right resolution etc. It doesn't meet all your list items, but.. it's proof that there are good laptops out there that are well suited to run Linux. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org