This thread now un-hijacked...
Key buying criteria for me would now be:
1. Price (as always)
2. Has anyone published a success-with-this-laptop page (see www.linux-on-laptops.com, and do a general Google search)? Will the modem work? Will the ACPI (power management) work? What about built-in 802.11?
3. Some confidence in the brand - reviews, talking to other victims.
4. Battery life
Mine is an NEC Versa. It was cheap (at the time). I've never found a linux-on-this-laptop-in-particular page. My modem works - under the 2.4 kernel only. No power management at all, not even battery monitoring.
The machine has worked well - I'd recommend the brand. Battery life sucks, but then, it does for all desktop-Pentium laptops. But it was cheap.
Hadley Rich wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:33, Alasdair Tennant wrote:
A little feedback from Linux laptop owners is appropriate - not to
Can anybody recommend good laptops? I have had some very good
milage with Asus, and Asus is well represented in these parts . . .
I've had a great run with my Thinkpad T22, although it does need some more RAM and the only stuff I can find that I know is compatible is a little pricey.
No issues with drivers on 2.6.6 and the modem drivers compiled with ease.
hads
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