I'm finally willing and able to take the plunge and get a nice notebook/laptop computer to dual boot (RH) Linux and Windows. The problem is of course, which one to purchase. I'm willing to spend up to $2000 or so, but there is no resource to tell me which one will be the least troublesome.
I'm feeling incredibly frustrated and I can see why there are substantially less Linux notebook users (and development). Nobody wants to be the guinea pig and buy something that won't work. Conversely, I have no doubt in my mind that the Windows partition will work nearly flawlessly with every part of the notebook. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ is nice and all, if you are either a current owner and looking for 'help', but as a new purchaser, it's quite useless without doing tons of research and comparing every little detail, wading through countless pages there. A simple 'poll' whereby each submitter could rate their satisfaction would be incredibly useful, especially if summarized with the 'top 10 best notebooks'. Alas, Mr. Harker has no such feature. :( I am looking for EVERYTHING (or as close to it) to work. This shouldn't be an unreasonable request for a $2000 piece of hardware: X-windows > 1024x768 res (pref with OpenGL or other 3D acceleration, but not required) Sound (minimum wave support/soft midi-synths would be nice though) Internal Modem (this seems to be a huge problem) NIC (10/100Mbs) WiFi (802.11) CD-R DVD APM/power management (ie. No locking up or crashing) Parallel/Serial Pointing device USB External monitor support (dual monitor would be wonderful) PC Card slots Firewire mebbe? IrDA mebbe? Is there a list of Linux notebook retailers anywhere? Perhaps that could narrow down my search. RedHat should maintain a list on their website of notebooks that are fully (or even mostly) compatible. I mean, it's in their best interest to direct folks to hardware that will work with their software right? Don't they have deals with various notebook vendors to bundle RH with them? I would assume that means ALL the hardware works right? Who are the vendors? *sigh* -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
