On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 11:56 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
1) Suggestions to "state of the art" powerful, multimedia laptop models or mobile, graphical workstations suited for Suse Linux 9.3 Pro? I would certainly have a look at what Eurocom (www.eurocom.com) has to offer. They had an Athlon64 based book (I think it was the DK470 or something like that) which was fully linux complient. Awesome machines.
The Dell notebooks seems to be very good under linux too. You can mostly choose between the "Dell Wireless controller" and the "Intel 2200 Pro" which I believee is fully supported. I think when you buy a notebook there's a always a chance that something isn't going to work properly, and I see that as a compromise one has to take. I'm not fussed about having to buy, say, a PCMCIA modem if the built in one doesn't work. I have a PCMCIA 108mbit wireless card (Netgear WG511T - awesome card, based on Atheros), so that wouln't bother me too much either - it's reception is a lot better than any built-in wireless I've ever seen anyways. I would be careful of HP, like other posters also said. A lot of their linux support is no more than lip service. And on all their notebooks, I was disappointed with their performance, considering the hardware. Different strokes, I guess