On Sb, 01 oct 11, 16:39:12, Ken Heard wrote:
By the way the Lenovo repair service was excellent; the problems with
the optical drives were caused by the manufacturer rather than the
laptop assembler. That R61 dating from 1998 is still going strong.
I have an R61i myself and love it, but 13
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:01:00 +0100
Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote:
...
Having said that, I'm moderately impressed with Acer, I have a
five-year-old laptop which was the cheapest available then, and which is
still going strong, albeit with a bit more RAM and a bigger drive than
it started
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
Having used both Thinkpads and HP, I'd never again choose a laptop that
only had a touchpad. I find it almost impossible to avoid hitting the
thing accidentally,. with unexpected results. The little joystick on the
On 29 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote:
[snip]
My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested)
and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried).
Having used both Thinkpads and HP, I'd never again choose a laptop that
only had a touchpad. I find
2011/9/29 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt:
2011/9/29 mforestier mforest...@free.fr:
Bonjour a toutes et tous!
C'est mon premier message sur cette liste!
Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/
As for laptops,
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
2011/9/29 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt:
As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows
for the moment) and Asus.
You should really keep windows on your toshiba for the moment. I had
to
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote:
some say nice things about
Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be.
Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may
still be good, whilst
On Friday 30 September 2011 20:47:56 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote:
some say nice things about
Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be.
Those 2 statements are not
2011/9/29 Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr
For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france), it
is
impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer.So she want
to
buy this one:
eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - AMD E-350 (1,6
Bonjour a toutes et tous!
C'est mon premier message sur cette liste!
C'est juste pour dire que je possede ce netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B que j'ai
installe gNewSense, debian versions stable, testing et unstable dessus, que
tout fonctionne tres bien, libre,... Et me tiens a disposition pour
2011/9/29 mforestier mforest...@free.fr:
Bonjour a toutes et tous!
C'est mon premier message sur cette liste!
Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/
As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows
On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote:
some say nice things about
Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be.
Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may still be
good, whilst not being as good as they used to be. (I rather get
I'm very sorry for my first message, in french! :-(
So, I try traduce because it serves presentation too...
I answered about netbook Lemote:
It was just to say I have this netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B.
I'm install gNewSense, debian versions stable, testing and unstable on
different partitions.
2011/9/29 mforestier mforest...@free.fr
I'm very sorry for my first message, in french! :-(
So, I try traduce because it serves presentation too...
I answered about netbook Lemote:
It was just to say I have this netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B.
I'm install gNewSense, debian versions stable,
2011/9/29 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com
On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote:
some say nice things about
Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be.
Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may still
be
good, whilst not being as
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:27 +0200
Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote:
For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country
(france), it is impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you
get acer.So she want to buy this one:
eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur
The problem to pay for an unwanted software from $M is one thing (whereat it is
difficult to estimate the cost). But if you need a $W-OS to update the BIOS
(e.g., with my HP Pavilion DV7) is IMHO a much bigger drawback.
Check and clarify this point somehow before bying.
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On Thursday 29 September 2011 15:22:50 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
The problem to pay for an unwanted software from $M is one thing (whereat
it is difficult to estimate the cost). But if you need a $W-OS to update
the BIOS (e.g., with my HP Pavilion DV7) is IMHO a much bigger drawback.
Check and
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:27 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france),
it is impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer.
JFYI, HP also ships laptops (company/enterprise based) with SLED 11 and/
or FreeDOS:
El 2011-09-29 a las 10:32 -0700, devadmin escribió:
(this e-mail reached my inbox but I'm not sure it was just intended to
me as I already said I like HP based notebooks -and also their
netbooks, desktop computers and servers- so resending to the list...)
DO NOT PURCHASE AN HP LAPTOP THEY ARE
El 2011-09-29 a las 20:01 +0200, Erwan David escribió:
(sending back to the list)
On 29/09/11 18:51, Camaleón wrote:
My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested)
and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried).
I got a lenovo T510
For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france), it is
impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer.So she want to
buy this one:
eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - AMD E-350 (1,6 GHz) -
320 Go - RAM 2048 Mo - AMD Radeon HD 6310 -
8 8 snip 8 8
fx threadjacks /fx
On a more general note, is there a laptop with good OS drivers for
everything, that has a DVI port and SPDIF out (in would be nice but not
essential) as well as all the normal USB, FireWire, WiFi, lan, etc... ?
Defiantly want OS graphics drivers so I think
Intel Celeron M 420
I'd recommend against any Celeron CPU. It's slow and not energy efficient.
A Turion64 ML-something is OK but an Turion64 MT-something is more
energy efficient, so check the details.
W.r.t GNU/Linux support I've come to the conclusion that it's a question of
luck more
Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons:
1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been
my observation over several years dealing with clients who buy nothing
but HP.
2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to
not take generic components. My
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:32 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Compaq Presario ($399.98 US)
[snip]
HP ($379.99 US)
Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons:
1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been
my observation over several years dealing with
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:13 -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote:
2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to
not take generic components. My nx6125, for example, will not work with
any hard disc other than the 80GB Seagate (with HP firmware) that it
came with. Sure you
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:32 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Compaq Presario ($399.98 US)
[snip]
HP ($379.99 US)
Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons:
1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been
my observation over several years dealing with clients who buy nothing
but HP.
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Baz wrote:
Thinkpad - it's the standard by which all others are measured...
Yes, but I still can't afford to pony up the price of a new Thinkpad.
I adviced my girlfriend to buy a used thinkpad. It's not a current
model, but was good value for money. She's never had
Marc Shapiro wrote:
For those who have already finished their turkey, or reside outside the
US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are actually
reading debian-user today...
I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged IBM
Thinkpad 390. All the
Johannes -
Which model was it? If it's any relief, my model is three months old and
I'm having the some of the same problems. Don't the developers know? Do
they even care? or are they just elitists?
- Sebastian
Sebastian,
Baz wrote:
Which model was it? If it's any relief, my model is three months old and
I'm having the some of the same problems.
Sorry, I should have written that more clearly. The other laptop was NOT
a Thinkpad. It was a Transtec laptop (I don't recall the model, by now
at least
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
For those who have already finished their turkey, or reside outside
the US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are
actually reading debian-user today...
I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged
IBM
Baz wrote:
Thinkpad - it's the standard by which all others are measured...
My 2p on that: I've used two Thinkpads at work (but not with Linux), a
T20 and a T21. Good points: very physically sturdy (a Dell Latitude
seems flimsy by comparison), and have a nice security feature (or scary
feature
Nick Boyce wrote:
My 2p on that: I've used two Thinkpads at work (but not with Linux), a
T20 and a T21. Good points: very physically sturdy (a Dell Latitude
seems flimsy by comparison), and have a nice security feature (or scary
feature depending on your point of view) in that if you set a
Baz wrote:
So, you have Etch running?
Yes. More information can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396411
Installation went very smooth and took about an hour, including more
than 4 GB worth of packages downloaded :-)
Johannes
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US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are actually
reading debian-user today...
I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged IBM
Thinkpad 390. All the sale flyers came in
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Toshiba Satellite ($299.99 US)
Intel Celeron M 420
512 MB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HD
CD-RW/DVD
802.11 a/b/g
I have one of these. It uses the ipw2100 wifi card internally. I got
fed up with it so I now use a PCMCIA D-Link AirPlus AG
Can't give you specific advice on the laptops you showed, but I would
check http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see if those models are there and
how much problems people have setting up their laptops.
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Thinkpad - it's the standard by which all others are measured...
On 11/23/06, John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can't give you specific advice on the laptops you showed, but I would
check http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see if those models are there and
how much problems people have
Baz wrote:
Thinkpad - it's the standard by which all others are measured...
Yes, but I still can't afford to pony up the price of a new Thinkpad.
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No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around
Marc -
Don't be so sure. I bought mine - regular $1400 for $1000 back in August.
Check Lenovo's clearance section. They were trying - so I read - to empty
the warehouses for the new models. Also, it was delivered one day late -
and, I got them to knock $50.00 more off.
- Sebastian
On
On 9/10/05, Tim Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use a Dell Latitude D600. Works awesome!
Tim
i also currently hold D600, but i would like to upgrade to latest
stable kernel-source package; which one are you using?
does it correctly manage your hardware?
i did not find any 2.6.x (x8)
On Saturday 10 September 2005 05:41 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Brian Kimball wrote:
Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
A good recommendation
I'm thinking of getting an asus z71v notebook.
has anyone had any experience with this or similar models?
TIA
lao
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Brian Kimball wrote:
Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
A good recommendation that I don't see very often is to check which
machines linux
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
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I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make your
mind up.
A fairly good ML is available für Thinkpads:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:11:02AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
Quick answer: IBM Thinkpad X40
Longer answer: check the
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:55:14AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote:
A fairly good ML is available f?r Thinkpads:
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
Yes, and a good wiki too: http://thinkwiki.org/
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I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
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recommendations by any chance?
Toshiba has a website where it documents the compatibility of their
computer with linux. They document also
Antonio Rodriguez said:
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a wonderful
laptop to run Debian on. I
I have put debian on two think pads a T20 and a new one. I also put it on a
Dell 6000? Sound isn't working on the 6000, but I think it is a hardware
problem.
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:07:56PM +0100, antgel wrote:
I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a
wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42 and
it detected everything right out of the box and configured it all
correctly. The only thing I had
antgel said:
Josh Battles wrote:
I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a wonderful
laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42 and it detected
everything right out of the box and configured it all correctly. The only
thing I had to do was manually setup
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I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
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recommendations by any chance?
Hi Antonio,
My girlfriend just installed debian etch in her Acer
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travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
Hi Antonio,
On Friday 09 September 2005 07:39 am, Josh Battles wrote:
antgel said:
Josh Battles wrote:
I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a
wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42
and it detected everything right out of the box and configured it
Es Divendres, 9 de Setembre de 2005 13:55, en Florian Dorpmueller va escriure:
| With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make
| your mind up.
It's http://tuxmobil.org (without the e) ;)
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Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for
travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good
recommendations by any chance?
A good recommendation that I don't see very often is to check which
machines linux laptop vendors choose to
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Es Divendres, 9 de Setembre de 2005 13:55, en Florian Dorpmueller va escriure:
| With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make
| your mind up.
It's http://tuxmobil.org (without the e) ;)
I use a Dell Latitude D600. Works awesome!
Tim
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Thanks to all for the very useful comments. I feel now much better informed.
Regards,
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AFAIK, ntfs partitions can be resized. Maybe not all partition
editors can do it, but I think Knoppix's can. Ubuntu can't right now,
be it is on the roadmap.
It's safest to use native tools to repartition.
Well, not in my experience. I used to think that way,
On 24 Nov 2004, Victor Munoz wrote:
Hello. I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I don't know much about the
subject (I've only had one old laptop, which I bought from a friend, and he
had already installed sid). From what I've learned googling, IBM Thinkpads
seem to be one of the best
Victor Munoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Currently I'm considering R50, T41, T42 models, but I'm open to suggestions!
I had the opportunity to play with a T42p just yesterday. h/w-wise, I
am impressed. I still have the machine available for some time, so if
there are specific points worrying
I'll just add a few comments based on my experience with an A31
ThinkPad:
On (24/11/04 14:42), Raphaël Berbain wrote:
Victor Munoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Currently I'm considering R50, T41, T42 models, but I'm open to suggestions!
...
I've read that one has to be very careful when first
Hello. I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I don't know much about the
subject (I've only had one old laptop, which I bought from a friend, and he
had already installed sid). From what I've learned googling, IBM Thinkpads
seem to be one of the best options. I live in Japan, and Japanese brands
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 7:54 pm, Victor Munoz wrote:
It will probably not be possible to buy a laptop without XP installed.
I believe CTL will sell you a laptop without an OS.
http://www.ctl.info/
There's also the issue of the special recovery partition somewhere in the
hard disk. And
Victor,
You are well prepared for your linux thinkpad journey.
I have a T41 with dual boot debian.
Absolutely get a thinkpad. The T series are really slim. Thinkpads are
top rated for Linux installation.
After you get your thinkpad call and ask for the rescue CD's. It will
be free. It won't
After you get your thinkpad call and ask for the rescue CD's. It will
be free. It won't be exactly the same as what is on the restore
Thanks for the tip.
license. Create a VFAT or M$ FAT to share. Read the grub manual on the
knoppix CD, great idea if you are new to linux.
Not the
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