On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > I bought my wife an R50 a couple months ago. When it came in the > mail, I resized her partitions, handed her a copy of Ubuntu, and told > her to give it a shot. Half an hour later, she was up and running > with 3D acceleration, 802.11g, sound, and hibernation all working, > right out of the box. Setting up the printer was a matter of browsing > the local network and selecting the Laserjet that was shared to my > subnet. Setting up remote scanning was a matter of adding an IP > address to the xsane-net backend driver file. It was like magic.
I recommend the Thinkpads as well. Superb laptops. I have used a T42p for the past few months at work. The only problem with that specific model is that it has an ATI card that requires a proprietary driver (fglrx) to get 3D acceleration, and you do that, you lose the ability to suspend-to-ram or suspend-to-disk. Without 3D acceleration, Ubuntu works great. > Admittedly, I had to break out my 1337 h4x0r sk1llz to get MPlayer > built and running, with all the codecs, along with MPlayer-plugin for > Firefox, so she could watch movie previews from apple.com/trailers and > what not. That's about as complicated as things got. She's been I just use Christian Marillat's Debian package repository for mplayer and other goodies. -Roberto -- Do what you will with this tagline, just don't bother me about it! .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
