Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

2009-04-28 Thread Martin Visser 
Erik,

A subset of the new HP ProBook range (announced today in the US), the
4710s specifically, are able to be ordered with SuSE 11 installed.
There are no announcements for Australia yet, and also no guarantees
they will have the same OS options here.

Product specs are here :-
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/SubFamMatrix.asp?ProductLineId=539FamilyId=3025jumpid=re_R295_store/busproducts/computing-notebook/hp-probook-notebook-pcpsn=notebooks_tablet_pcs/notebook_pcs

And yes, I do find it a little frustrating that they aren't more
comprehensive in the Linux support across the range.

Regards, Martin

martinvisse...@gmail.com



On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 Does anyone here in .au actually ship higher end laptops with Linux
 pre-installed? Dell does in  the US, but not here. I've also searched
 the  HP website, but that is even harder to navigate than the Dell
 site.

 Erik
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Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

2009-04-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo 
Martin Visser wrote:

 A subset of the new HP ProBook range (announced today in the US), the
 4710s specifically, are able to be ordered with SuSE 11 installed.
 There are no announcements for Australia yet, and also no guarantees
 they will have the same OS options here.

Dell has had Linux laptop options in the US for over a year now
and they are still not available here in Australia. Pease forgive
me for thinking that HP are not likely to be much better than
Dell in this regard :-).

 And yes, I do find it a little frustrating that they aren't more
 comprehensive in the Linux support across the range.

Yes, frustrating.

Erik
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