Heather wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > > > I'm looking at laptops (and drooling a bit ;) and I was wondering if > > there are any laptops that are friendly to debian... > > > > I've come upon the Dell Inspirion 4000 which seems to be the most bang > > for the bucks but are there any laptops that are friendlier?? > > > > Thanks! > > Yannick >
I recently bought a Compaq Presario 1800. Mine has a PIII-700, 128MB RAM, and 8MB video. You can get more memory and a faster processor. It also has a 7200RPM hard drive that doesn't seem to be getting too hot (even when running statistical models on large data files). The onboard ethernet, linmodem, sound, and video are all very workable with linux. The debian install (sid) was a breeze. I'm also close to getting the DVD player to work. I have never like Compaq desktops, but my expectations have been far exceeded with this laptop. The downside for many people will be that it weighs more than average since the drives are not swapable. For what I need to do with it, though, power was slightly more important than ultra-portability. Surprisingly, buying it direct from Compaq was as cheap as any other vendor I could find - local or internet. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
