Micha Feigin wrote: > IBMs seem to be good laptops with good customer support, no experience > with Linux on them.
They run linux well. That said, be careful that you don't buy a model that does not have linux support YET. Things are changing faster in the laptop market (though IBM seems to be the most stable). Also avoid Dell, Compaq, and other small companies that OEM other laptops. For example, Dell and Compaq have their laptops made to spec by several Chinese companies. Internaly they vary from plant to plant, while looking the same externaly. Some of these differences mean nothing to Linux users, some matter. I've had good luck running YellowDog Linux on older Mac laptops. New Mac laptops come with a mostly open source UNIX (BSD based), so running linux on them makes less sense, but it does work. The main disadvantge is multimedia. Sine the processor is not X86 compatible, open source codecs are used instead of closed source windows codecs. The windows codecs generaly are more reliable and faster than the open source ones. This may have to do with the fact that in order to work on the hardware, the open source codecs must be able to work in a big endian (Mac) or little endian (X86) mode which complicates things. On the other hand, you can run both MacOS X (pronounced OS TEN) on a Mac laptop and Linux either one at a time with dual boot, or with the OS X system running under Linux using a program called MOL. Note that if you buy a new Mac Laptop, you can bargain with Yeda. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
