quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint
that will help your purchasing decision: Buy Intel, from top to bottom. You
will have
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint
that will help your
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
Rich
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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Russell
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:15 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Thinkpads have been long revered for their GNU/Linux support, but I don't
know
how they are these days. Dells _can_ be good due to the sheer number of
I am on to my second Thinkpad (a T60, previously a T40) and everything
works on
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
On 3/1/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Russell Davie
A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would
run
Linux.
Which is a good choice?
I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:28:22 +1100
Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
Rich
--
BarCamp Sydney - March 3, 2007
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T series Thinkpads, but
gave up completely on an R series. It's sitting on the shelf gathering
dust right now :( Does anyone
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Russell Davie
Sent: Friday, 2 March 2007 7:35 AM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user
G'day,
I'll second the Dell being fine on Ubuntu (for the single user). When
you say entry level it means different things to most users. There's
the BenQ range of Intel CPU-driven units, but some of the Dell laptops
(such at the lowest level XPS M1210) are $1800 or so and offer a tiny,
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:16:05AM EST, david wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T series Thinkpads, but
gave up completely on an R series. It's
On Friday 02 March 2007 07:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some distributions have better laptop support than others. Ubuntu is a
particularly friendly distro for laptops, and I don't think Fedora is bad
either.
I have never had problems with Toshibas (using one now). I thin Ubuntu
is
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Alexander Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nVidia drivers are actually alright under Ubuntu (I can suspend to RAM
out of the box) and if you use nv (which is really a non-issue in many
cases) you can do both. There are ways to force it to unload the module
and then suspend
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
ATI, at least with binary drivers, is far worse. I can't speak for the Free
drivers.
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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:16:05AM EST, david wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote:
i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse .
I've had an excellent run with three different T
On 3/2/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is
Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :(
ATI, at least with binary drivers, is
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