On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 16:27 -0500, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi List!
I need your advice more than ever :-)
Finally I saved some money for a laptop. The main thing is that I'm windows free almost two years now, so I really want/need to run Linux (openSuSE) on it.
I was thinking between Lenovo ThinkPad T61 (which was discussed earlier here in the list and seems to have good compatibility with opensuse) and Sony Vaio VGN-FZ4000.
Sony looks much fancier, and actually cheaper than lenovo, but there is no much info about linux friendliness. It's on the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT and WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n w/Integrated Bluetooth wireless (and I really need wireless working). Is there any known issues with those? And in general maybe you know if there is any major issues with Sony?
Not for me. I use a Sony laptop. There is Sony-specific support in OpenSUSE that detects it is a Sony and loads a few things. With 10.3, I simply installed it and it 'just worked'. Wireless and all. Of course, every model is different, But I would buy a Sony again to use with Linux. I see things like this in /var/log/messages: <6>sony-laptop: Sony Notebook Control Driver v0.5. <6>input: Sony Vaio Keys as /class/input/input7 <6>input: Sony Vaio Jogdial as /class/input/input8 I have to admit that I hate mouse pads in general. I use an external mouse no matter. But I think the Sony uses a rather standard synaptics mouse pad. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org