On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:28 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:52 -0400, Walt Frampus wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:16 -0600, Travis Crook wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am considering purchasing a laptop and wondered if any of you could > > > give me specs on one that would be friendly to Mandriva 2005. I don't > > > want to spend more than $1000.00 (US dollars) on it. I also prefer AMD > > > processors, but I won't get too picky. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Travis Crook > > > Visions Beyond > > > > I am running Mandriva 2005 LE on my compaq Presario 3000 and My Averatec > > 5400 Laptops with no real problems at all. Mandriva was the only Linux > > distro to find all the hardware correctly and wifi was a breeze on both! > > I did have to use the vesa driver on the Averatec but since I am not > > playing any games on it, it doesn't matter. I had tried several distros > > on both these laptops and actually had to put windows (yuck) back on the > > compaq to make it usable. Now even my laptops are totally windows free! > > I have seen a couple of Averatec laptops that looked good. Have you had > any problems with them? I am currently also looking at an eMachines. > > > Walt > > Thanks! > > Travis Crook > Visions Beyond > > > plain text document attachment (message.footer) > > ____________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > ____________________________________________________ I have a HP zv5360 That has Mandrake 10.1 dual booting with windows for now. It works well, although I did have to use ndiswrapper to get the onboard wireless to work. I also got an Orinoco clone pcmcia card that worksl dandy. The onboard lan worked out of the box as did usb and all that other stuff. So just to be adventurous I did a clean install of Mandriva LE 2005 and it runs with out a hicup. Cool! -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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