On Thursday 22 March 2007 13:47, Kai Ponte wrote: > I put in a $20,000 line item in my budget for fiscal year 2007/2008 - > starting in July - for four notebooks for me and my staff. I was told today > that I need to spend the money by the end of this month, in order to > re-adjust the funds (or some sort of thing) for this year. > > Okay, so IOTW, I must spend $20K now for notebooks. > > Well....if I HAVE to.... > > In any case, I first go to the HP site and click on the enterpise business > notebooks. Look what I see: > > HP Compaq nw9440 Mobile Workstation
Hmm, what's the battery life? > > Operating Systems > > -Genuine Windows Vista™ Business 32 > -Genuine Windows® XP Professional SP2 > -Genuine Windows® 2000 > -FreeDOS > -SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 > -Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP3 certified > > w00t! That doesn't mean that I can yet BUY the notebook with SUSE but at > least they mention it. Personably, I'm rather partial to Thinkpads;-) IBM has supported Linux on some Thinkpads for years, and I think the Chinese crew's following suit. I recently bought a used R40 2722-GDM (near the top of the R40s I think, with 1 1440x1050 low-gloss screen. I hate glossy screens, I thought they were a bad idea when IBM introduced them for the IBM PC (the CGA monitor), and I still think so. Also, while widescreens might be good for watching videos, that's not what I want to do. Reputedly the T series have better Linux compatibility. The only problems I have are Wireless (Atheros, requires third-party mostly OSS driver), and I'm not sure whether the modem works, though Google thinks it does. Toshiba actively supports Linux on its hardware too, but it's a little quieter about it. One of the nicer things about the Thinkpads is their Ultrabay: one can hot-remove the Optical drive and replace it with something else, a battery, a second disk drive.... Oh, _my_ R40 has the Ultranav thing, a "joystick" thing in the middle of the keyboard that one can lean on to move the mouse cursor plus three mouse buttons, all functioning under Linux. There's also the usual touchpad, with two buttons and scrolling and clicking gestures. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
