In general I have found IBM to be pretty good, but it pays to check the particular model.
there is a very active IBM laptop mailing list too, which is encouraging, as it shows a degree of support compared to some lesser known brands. I'd add to Douglas's list 3d accelerated graphics support, but it depends what stirs your cup of tea :-) Pentium M is definitely the cpu to have IMHO. On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:48:33 +1200 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
