On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:14:54 +0530, "Rahul Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am interested in buying a Linux laptop. Just read about Acer having > one for 55K. And HP too. > Could someone tell me which laptop is a good buy ? This is a personal > one, so i am a bit touchy about price and maintenance. However, i still > want a P4 with 512MB Ram.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 and would recommend it. If your budget is tight, ie. Its a good deal for what it comes packaged with. Dell's Inspiron 8200/8600 and also great buys. I will also admit that I am not going to buy another Dell product in my life, after the Inspiron 8500 and Inspiron 1100(which i had earlier). Linux works fine on both the 1100 and 8500. Though the initial install was somewhat of a bother taking close to 10 hrs on each. Mandrake/Redhat/Mepis/Knoppix/SuSE/Libranet(their latest releases) run pretty spiffy on both of them. If you are doing a Debian netinstall(which is the sanest way), all you need to do is ensure that you are using a 2.4.23 kernel(atleast) which has support for the builtin Broadcom NIC...or you can use a spare PCMCIA NIC to get through teh initiall install, get the latest kernel, and then move onto using the Broadcom NIC after recompiling Linux 2.4.23. Dells Pros - Cheap, Good/Decent Hardware config/ Lots of RAM and HDD(if you want), and a DVD-RW9on the inspiron 8500), BIG LCD screen, superb colours Cons - Tacky keyboard, Heavy, Clunky, Bad styling, Extremely incompetent support. Suggested laptops - Fujitsu Lifestyle, IBM(pretty costly for the hardware config), or Apple Powerbook(instalely costly) -- Sthitaprajna http://puggy.symonds.net/~zeeble -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different� ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
