Randal Jarrett wrote:
I'm going to have to replace my old (6+ years) Toshiba that has a amd 450Mhz processor and a whopping 20GB disk.
I'm looking for recommendations for a mid range ($1k - 1.5k) laptop that is compatible with Opensuse 10.3.
Please, no flamefests!!
Randal Jarrett
RSJ Consulting, Inc Hernando, FL (352) 419-0112
Most of the recent IBM 's a very compatible with SUSE specifically the ALL Intel ones. I have some luck with the DV series from HP although no way near as friendly as IBM's the DV6000 and DV9000 are fine if you don't mind using the NDISwrapper or are really good with firmware tools. The newer Broadcom NICS aren't as compatible with the firmware stripper as the ones from just over a year ago. I also didn't get most of the peripheral tech up, like the fingerprint reader and webcam. I didn't try to hard either, I have been reading that several people have been able to fully enable there HP laptops. I have been running an R51 from IBM from the day I first heard Novell was getting into linux. I started with 8.x then 9.0 the NLD9 , I even worked on the Intel IPW2200 wireless driver testing team. since then I have never had to even think about my drivers. Basically the more Intel chips you get the easier the install , and no I don't work there, I just have been a Big Blue customer for close to 15 years. Good luck -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District 213 S. Main st Newmarket NH, 03857 603-659-3271 *318 CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/Education Good things to read! http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org