Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:14:27 +0000 | From | Andrew Walrond <> | Subject | Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ? |
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Not the cheapest, but certainly one of the best is the IBM Thinkpad
I've got an A20p, A21p and A31p and have got all hardware on those models working nicely; ACPI/Power management being the only problem area, although I'm happy with my setup.
And if you want a good used a21p, let me know ;)
Andrew Walrond
jw schultz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:00:45AM +0100, Nicolas Turro wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>Hi, >>I am software engineer at a french research institute, in charge of the linux >>support on about 600 computers. I am looking for laptops whith linux >>support/certification. I couln't find any recent laptop model on your >>certification page. Would you recomend me any brand of computer ? >>We curently buy Compaq Evos laptops, but enabling linux on those laptops >>is terrible : >>- - power management seems to be ACPI only (which linux barely supports) >>- - sound is hard or impossible to setup correctly. >> >>Any help/advice would be apreciated. > > > You will get almost as many different answers as responses > to this question. Frankly, given the way things are i'm not > sure it is safe to recommend any brand per se. For a given > brand the hardware will be different in each model and may > even differ between production runs of the same model. > > I've been happy with my Sony Vaio F160 but some people have > reported problems with the F series. Most major brands have > at least one model that has caused problems. Dell and > Compaq are notorious and yet there are many people have > gotten them to work. > > The best thing i can recommend is to go to > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/, Read the HOWTOs, and > finally find some models you like and check to see how > others have fared with them. > > Alternatively you could buy a laptop with linux already > installed. Unfortunately that is often more expensive than > buying one with MS-flavor-of-the-month installed and > reformatting. >
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