-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Good Morning, I recently acquired an HP TX2510CA Tablet PC. The very > same day I bought it, it burnt. I left it plugged overnight and was > awaken in the middle of the night to a house full of smoke. I called > HP and they assured me this was a one-in-a-billion occurrence; but > when I did a bit of digging I found the TX2000 series is prone to > overheating and other serious problems... > > That said, I still need a new Tablet PC for work and if at all > possible I would like to run Linux on it. I want to take advantage of > the Pen input, the screen rotation and (if available) the web camera > and fingerprint scanner. I have yet to find a model with an attached > claim of a successful Linux Installation. Any suggestions? > > P.S I would also like to make sure the tablet is not going to burn > down my house :-) > I have had very poor experiences with HP notebooks. My two year old dual core Turion still has issues (like a flaky USB bus, cheap hardware that is still not well supported by Linux, like the broadcomm wifi adaptor that you cannot replace) so I have a hard time recommending them, particularly to Linux users.
If you check out Emperor Linux they have a tablet PC that is preloaded with Linux. I believe it is a Lenovo X series, so you should be able to get one of those to bend to your will. Hth, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI2UHzwRXgH3rKGfMRAnbVAKCkxJ/+h/aFOzZmBQyKowH088gZewCdFPL9 z/2+c+5k2e0GsTOELrtpOM0= =ajaa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
