stringer wrote:
Is there anything I should steer clear of?
HP. Wifi: I got an HP Pavilion DV1000 and had endless issues sorting out the wifi. I ended up using ndiswrapper, which is ok (despite what others say) but it's a pain. Every time I go to install another distro I have to work out where the wifi drivers are. Ok, so that's not really that hard, but I just forget between each time. Sleep Mode: My HP is known to have problems going to sleep under linux when you close the lid. While I could find talk about the problem I haven't found the solution. I confess I gave up when it got to hard and didn't try contacting the maintainers for the power code. I don't really understand how all the power stuff hangs together with things like the display. I'd like a laptop that has hardware that linux just knows or isn't to hard to download drivers for and install. Now having said all this... I know that Nick has a very nice little HP that he's really happy with. HTH Cheers Don -- Don Gould 1/31 Acheson Ave, Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: +64 3 348 7235 - Mobile: +64 21 114 0699 www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz
