Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:32:23 -0600 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ? |
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www.sagernotebook.com
I just recently purchased one of the 5600 series, and have had no issues with it. You don't have to pay the Microsoft tax, and it mostly just plain worked out of the box. The only challenges were finding drivers for the softmodem (which works fine once I got the drivers) so that I don't have to occupy the single PCMCIA slot with a modem, and getting accelerated X - I'm using closed source drivers from ATI for the Radeon 9000 chipset, at least until the Radeon work in the kernel (and in XFree86) catches up. X worked fine with just the default vesa driver for most purposes, but DVD playback and other video intensive things was far from ideal. The only thing I would have even changed in the design of the box is to put at least one external serial port on, because I use it frequently as a terminal, but I got a USB to serial adapter for $20 that fixed that quite readily...
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