I was the one starting the thread on buying a new laptop. You might have a look at the latest electronic Choice. They compared a stack of laptops using parameters not normally considered by most buyers (number of ports and what type, power consumption, screen glare etc.
Something else that came up was that Dell, although pretty good, are not perfect, in that others (HP, eg., from memory) have kernels more oriented towards Linux. You might also try a Dogpile search for laptops, Linux and compatability. Hope this is useful, William Bennett. > On 3 November 2010 00:20, Jesus Jr M Salvo <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My old HP Compaq Presario V6000 that I bought about 4 years ago with >> Fedora running on it ( I think I started with FC6 up to FC11 ) has >> finally died .... e.g. no display even during POST, and notebook keeps >> on rebooting itself I presume because it detected that there was >> display output, though I have not tried plugging the notebook to an >> external monitor / TV to see if it can boot up ... so posting this at >> the moment from a netbook running win7. >> >> Anyway, I am thinking of buying a new laptop. I know there is an >> existing thread started by another SLUG user about buying a new >> laptop, but I am thinking of buying a Dell notebook this time, because >> they seem to have good support for linux, in particular Ubuntu in some >> of their Inspiron notebooks, though admittedly not all models. ( Apart >> from that, they support linux heavily in their PowerEdge platform, but >> that's another story ). >> >> Problem is, I could not seem to buy online from Dell Australia with >> Linux pre-installed. I can see Dell US offering Dell Inspiron 15N with >> Ubuntu pre-installed ( although a very old Ubuntu version ): >> >> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&l=en&cs=19 >> >> >> ... but no such offer in Australia. Worse, if you go to the Australian >> site: >> >> http://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/home/notebooks/ct.aspx?refid=notebooks&s=dhs&cs=audhs1&~ck=anavml >> >> .. under the "Operating System", there is no choice of "Linux" or "no >> OS" like they had with the PowerEdge series. >> >> >> So question is, has anyone bought on-line from Dell a laptop with >> either linux pre-installed or just with FreeDOS ? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> John >> > > > Just found out that HP notebooks can be bought from Australia with > linux ( SUSE ) pre-installed: > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/au/en/sm/WF04a/321957-321957-64295-3955552-3955552.html > > ... though these are "business" notebooks instead of "home" notebooks. > > John > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
