Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Buggy
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 http://www.barcampsydney.org/ On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Russell

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Wong
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Russell Davie
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread david
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

RE: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Visser, Martin
the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -Original Message- 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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Alexander Stanley
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,

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread jam
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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. --

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread david
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Michael Fox
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