Hi Steve, I have looked quite a bit at Sony, but the SZ series are around $2000US. Are they really twice as nice as the HP? thanks, max
Stephen Lau wrote: > max at bruningsystems.com wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am looking into buying a new laptop, and of course I want it to be >> able to run opensolaris. >> >> I want something that is fairly light weight, dual core amd or intel, >> dvd writer, 1GB memory >> and as much disk as I can afford. I have been looking at the HP >> Pavilion DV2310 which >> seems to have it all. But I can only look on-line, so I haven't been >> able to go to a store that has >> this and try inserting Belinix to see if it works. Anyone with >> experience with Solaris on >> this machine? The machine seems too cheap to be true (under >> $1000US). Does anyone have >> a suggestion for another machine to look at? >> >> thanks, >> max > > I would check out the Sony Vaio SZ series... it's a Core 2 Duo (dual > core Intel), has a DVD writer, can go up to 2GB of memory and has a > 100GB disk option and isn't too bad at around 4 pounds. > > It's not cheap though. :) > > The guys at the Sony Style store were fine with me booting up a > Belenix LiveCD on it. > > cheers, > steve >
