On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:19:37PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Monday, February 07, 2011 11:11:10 Anthony Acquanita wrote: > > So just to update everyone. > > I've narrowed it down to 14inch laptops that support 8gig of memory. > > I require a working camera, speaker, wifi, and suspend and resume. > > Also all hardware that the laptop comes with should work ( except the > > fingerprint reader ). > > > > The dell 6410 has a few issues it seems depending on what flavor of > > linux/kernel you are using and what display chip you choose. > > > > The front runners so far are the Lenovo T410s and the system76 Pangolin.
I've got a 410s. Upsides: Fast Light Decent battery thanks to intel graphics hardware accelerated aes for full-disk crypto Downsides: Doesn't take expanded battery. You can get an ultrabay3 battery and get about 5-6 hours though. Crappy 3d thanks to intel graphics. It'll do the basics but don't expect to run new games or anything. No way to enroll fingerprints for bios from linux - you'll have to go into windows for this one. ... Generally it works fine. I didn't buy it w/ my own money (work laptop) but I'd probably put it pretty high in the running if i were going to. -m > > The Pangolin has a 15.6" widescreen. The Lemur UltraThin might do, but uses > a > core i3 rather than an i5 or i7. > > > > Couple of notes on the Lenovo T410s: > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T410s > > The hard disk "Active Protection System" mentioned in the page above requires > loading a daemon package "hdapsd", and also requires the kernel option > CONFIG_SENSORS_HDAPS to be enabled and for the "hdaps" module to be loaded. > [And this seems best to load as a module rather than building it in.] Only > some hard disks come with this firmware according to the page below, so if > you > eventually decide to change hard disks take that into account. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System > > One side effect of loading the hdaps module is that the laptop's > accelerometers appear as a joystick device, which automatically gets used by > MPlayer to fast-forward or rewind video by default. > > > > Also note that typically the Lenovo laptops cannot accept oversized laptop > hard disks in terms of physical thickness (12.2mm thickness vs 9mm) so they > won't accept a 1TB laptop hard disk. The largest capacity 9mm thickness > laptop hard disk I can find is 750GB. > > You'll also need the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL kernel option (and you > probably want CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_ALSA_SUPPORT too) in order to get the > multimedia buttons to work. (With luck the distro's kernel will be new > enough > to support these and will all of these options will already be compiled in, > but I'm listing them so you can search through the kernel config file for > them > to verify.) > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape --
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