Hi all, I need a serious Notebook/Laptop with OpenSUSE 11.4. At the moment I use MacBook with Snow Leopard. I tried Lion, a disaster. OSX is also not as usable as openSUSE for serious System Administration in the IT environment. Apple has excellent hardware! The incompatibilities of it's FS with the more modern ext3/4 FS's is a pain. openSUSE reads OSX's FS without problems, but it is a pain the other way around. I was considering the newest MacBook Pro, but it has limitations if used with openSUSE dual boot with OSX. I use VirtualBox with openSUSE and Win's if needed. There are other manufacturers that has excellent hardware, and work flawlessly with openSUSE. I do not need OSX really, but it comes with a Mac. Other considerations are that most Notebook Companies use manufacturers like FoxConn that has highly questionable work ethics toward it's employees; this was lately exposed by an Apple manufacturing assembly line. The problem is that most source their hardware components from FoxConn, even Dell sold it's Irish plant to them. I read on Toshiba's English Japanese website that they keep the highest ethical practices in human rights, but they 'urge' their supply chain manufacturers to adhere to the same standards. Which companies do keep such standards. Now, who has been occupying the same questions lately. What was your conclusions. Which hardware has the highest compatibility with openSUSE (also maybe RH, Deb, C-OS) and keep to the minimal ethical standards? I was looking at something like the Toshiba X770 range, with dual SSD HD's and Full HD Video. It should have the same or better standard than the MacBook Pro 17". Money is of lesser importance, because it gets written off by the business in three years. It must also be usable for multimedia and CAD type of applications, and have Raid 1 possibility with two SSD's. Any experiences are highly appreciated! :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org