Tim, I wanted a fast good value laptop for CPU-demanding Java programming with AMD processor as I knew that Open/Solaris is optimized for AMD. Got top-range of Dell Inspiron 1501 (DualCore T-56, 2GB RAM, 105GB HDD) - ?700. It runs B63. No power management-friendly though.
It survived falling down c.a. 40cm - only the internal wifi died so don't know whether it was Solaris-friendly; the only open-source driver for it is NDIS. It also runs Ubuntu Penguin - http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com. But same version of Java and NetBeans runs 2x faster in OpenSolaris :) - Peter > 1. Re: Best Laptop for OpenSolaris? (Tim Cook) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:53:09 PDT > From: Tim Cook <tcook at datalink.com> > Subject: [laptop-discuss] Re: Best Laptop for OpenSolaris? > To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Message-ID: <27165782.1180032819440.JavaMail.Twebapp at oss-app1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > My vote goes for the dell M65. Everything in it up to now has been supported > except for the wireless card. Now that is even supported with B64. It's got > a core2 duo, and an nvidia quadro video card. Gets the job done for me.
