it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.
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· Roger Oberholtzer · E
Joel,
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is luggable vs. laptop.
My (home) ThinkPad is quite reliable and SuSE 7.2 runs fine on it right off
the install. But it is pretty heavy to lug around. I hate the eraser.
My (home) PowerBook 17 is great, runs OS X and Gentoo in dualboot (had
YellowDog
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:55, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
Joel,
My (home) PowerBook 17 is great, runs OS X and Gentoo in dualboot (had
YellowDog triple-booted but wanted the disk space instead) and is not too
What do you think of Gentoo on PPC? Do you run it on Intel to compare?
dep wrote:
quoth Chong Yu Meng:
| And, yes, IBM batteries suck ! After 1 year, the battery in my
| previous Thinkpad (an X240, IIRC) died, and I had to plug my laptop
| into a wall socket everytime I needed to boot-up.
where is your previous laptop and what, beyond my good wishes, would it
take
, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.
You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested
Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003, Jerry McBride wrote:
...
You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested
Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking
them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that
is just about
On 10/4/03 23:16, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So they've fixed it I guess. There was a problem when it first came out.
My recommendation is an Apple Powerbook - my daugher got one for school and
it's great! We're running X and OpenOffice on it.
I will second the PowerBook
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 15:00, Michael Hipp wrote:
Net Llama! wrote:
yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually indestructable. My
employer gave me a T20 (somewhat older, PIII-700, 512MB RAM), and it is
also running RH9 + XFCE4.
Here's another vote for ThinkPads. I've owned several
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:34, Jerry McBride wrote:
You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested
Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking
them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that
is just about
burns wrote:
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 11:34, Jerry McBride wrote:
You got a lot of suggestions on this one, Joel, but no one suggested
Panasonic. If you are into really working with your notebook, like taking
them to construction work sites, etc, Panasonic makes a toughbook series that
is
I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can
get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get
an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can
get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get
an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop
laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.
It doesn't have built-in wireless, but I've been happy with my Compaq
Presario 2170ca, dual-boot Mandrake 9.1/WinXP. It was about the
cheapest thing
, any laptop suggestions that would play well with
linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.
Thanks,
Joel
I too am thinking about a laptop and you might take a look at:
www.emperorlinux.com
They load linux on their laptops
week for a trip. I don't think I can
get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get
an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I
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From: Chong Yu Meng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions
I'm using a Thinkpad R40. Got it for SGD$1,600, which equates to
slightly less than
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I too am thinking about a laptop and you might take a look at:
www.emperorlinux.com
They load linux on their laptops... although you pay highly for that I
suspect.
But what I did was to go there and get an idea of which laptops are
compatible
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
I'm using a Thinkpad R40. Got it for SGD$1,600, which equates to
slightly less than USD$1,000. Brand new. A few caveats though :
I'm running very happily on RH9 + XFCE4 with 2 Apache web server
yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
I'm using a Thinkpad R40. Got it for SGD$1,600, which equates to
slightly less than USD$1,000. Brand new. A few caveats though :
I'm running very happily on RH9 + XFCE4 with 2 Apache web server
yea, Thinkpads are
Net Llama! wrote:
yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually indestructable. My
employer gave me a T20 (somewhat older, PIII-700, 512MB RAM), and it is
also running RH9 + XFCE4.
Here's another vote for ThinkPads. I've owned several and all worked
flawlessly - very well built. I'm currently
quoth Joel Hammer:
| So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with
| linux?
my top three choices:
1. thinkpad
2. thinkpad
3. used thinkpad
i'm running suse on an old tp-240 and it is the niftiest three-pound
machine on the planet (except for the prototype tp-240s
it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
Dude! It's a Dell!
We bought 10 Dell's at work about a year ago to use as a portable
classroom. We have loaded various versions of Redhat and Suse on them
an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
I think I should get a wireless enabled laptop, too.
Thanks,
Joel
When Centrino was first released it had problems with the wireless part of
the chip - does it still have that?
Joel Hammer wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will look into them.
One point, maybe a sore one. Consumers Report recommended laptops with
centrino chips because they get
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will look into them.
One point, maybe a sore one. Consumers Report recommended laptops with
centrino chips because they get longer battery life and fit into a smaller
case. I haven't used a laptop before, so I don't have
Joel Hammer wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will look into them.
One point, maybe a sore one. Consumers Report recommended laptops with
centrino chips because they get longer battery life and fit into a smaller
case. I haven't used a laptop before, so I don't have a good feel for
quoth Chong Yu Meng:
| And, yes, IBM batteries suck ! After 1 year, the battery in my
| previous Thinkpad (an X240, IIRC) died, and I had to plug my laptop
| into a wall socket everytime I needed to boot-up.
where is your previous laptop and what, beyond my good wishes, would it
take to get you
Not according to Consumers Report.
Joel
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:27:02PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
When Centrino was first released it had problems with the wireless part of
the chip - does it still have that?
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So they've fixed it I guess. There was a problem when it first came out.
My recommendation is an Apple Powerbook - my daugher got one for school and
it's great! We're running X and OpenOffice on it.
Joel Hammer wrote:
Not according to Consumers Report.
Joel
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