-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandar, > Toshiba? - From experience, Toshiba has proved to be one of the best laptops ever in terms of hardware support in GNU/Linux. Almost all of their hardware is standards compliant and they all work fine, including the built in modem and black magic stuff like suspend to RAM, etc.
> 0. Which of these are easily available in Kolkata? Toshiba is marketed in India by HCL and is pretty much available everywhere. > 1. Processor: Is there much variability between brands on this > count? What's a good laptop processor? Well, Don't go for anything less than a Pentium-M / Centrino. If you are power hungry, you can even go for an AMD Turion processor. > 2. Display: does Linux work smoothly with something like the > wide-screen Compaqs? I have seen GNU/Linux working flawlessly on a wide-screen Compaq. > 3. Weight: if you're traveling a lot, it's probably important > for the laptop to be light-weight. That's a big issue. While 2.8 - 3 Kg might look pretty light at first, trust me, it's really a pain when you travel a lot with it. The ideal weight according to me should be in the 1.5 Kg category but that will again take you to the ultra-portable category and may also cost a bomb. > 4. Robustness (will it take some knocking about?), reliability, > service, etc.? My advice, stay away from Acer. IMHO they use pretty much substandard hardware. Thinkpads are the champs in this regard. > Also, I assume one can request one's own configuration regarding > amount of RAM, whether it has a DVD writer, etc.? Don't settle for anything less than 512MiB. If possible buy the laptop with an extra 512MiB stick so that you don't have to worry much in the future. >>My vote is for Thinkpads - I have a T42p - rock solid. Works more or less >>out of the box with Linux - and some features that don't work right out of I agree. The T42p is really good. > Should one worry about the Lenovo vs. IBM deal? I don't think so :) Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDXaCdQkk0lIY2G3QRApghAJ4xGXAegwtTvVMEvgwR5M3GGjjeAgCfbM8w KN9TwVt8sTNcJhtLbTc5ZR8= =/OMA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
