On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:43 -0800, Jay Schaffer wrote: > On Mar 2, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Jay Schaffer wrote: > > > I've come into a bit of money and would like to buy the very best PC I > > can under $1000. I want something that is dual-boot with Windows 2000 > > Pro (or maybe XP Pro) and SUSE 9.2. > > Oops! Somehow I left out the word "laptop". I need something I can > carry to a client's site since the databases I write don't necessarily > display the same on Mac OS as they do in Windows. I'd like to carry > two laptops so I can display either way. > > Running Windows is no problem, however, I need a laptop that will > easily accept a Linux install without problems--I know some have > strange or proprietary hardware that is not necessarily supported by > Linux. > > Thanks for all the replies, suggestions, and advice thus far. Greatly > appreciated.
Be sure to check out Linux-on-Laptops before you buy: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ I've had exceptional luck with Toshibas and Linux (as well as *BSD), and there are a lot of 3rd party open-source add-ons for Toshibas for you to control the screen brightness, CPU fan speed, Tablet, etc. On the downside, Toshiba notebooks tend to find a way to break on their own, so get a good warranty if you go this route. Another key thing to look for is video cards on the laptop. ATI and Nvidia cards work really well, but some sub-notebooks only ship with the Trident "cyberblade" or Intel video chips which give mixed results. Mark -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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