Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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.
There's also ThinkPad specific support in OpenSUSE. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org