Have you considered a Lenovo ThinkPad (the T or R series) ? In my experience pretty much all hardware (including the fingerprint reader) work well.
It may be slightly expensive, but my T40 has served me well for a long time now. Regards, Ritesh On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected] > wrote: > magesh wrote: > > hi ppl, > > > > This is magesh, from chennai > > i have planned to buy a laptop... i opt for hp or compaq > > but now iam little confused on which system would be linux favourable > > > > because many of friends were disappointing, of the non-availability of > > the drivers and many other problems as far as the laptops are concerned > > > > so i need feedbacks from people who use hp or compaq notebooks > > and iam also confused on which one to go for either hp or compaq... > > help me with this friends > > Use the Fedora live cd and boot once and check if everything works > before buying the laptop. Generally speaking, Broadcom wireless (which > is rebranded as Dell wireless on Dell systems and requires proprietary > non redistributable firmware) and Nvidia (which requires proprietary > drivers for 3D acceleration still) are problematic. > > Atheros or Intel wireless and Intel display would work out of the box. > Almost all webcams are supported. Stay away from Creative for sound and > you should do ok. > > Rahul > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-india mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india > -- Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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