Re: Dell or HP laptop with excellent support to Linux (Debian)
- From: Mark <mamarcac@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:03:57 -0700
I've used several Dell's at work ("business" quality, i.e. Latitude D830)
while several friends have consumer-level (home) Inspirons. My advice is to
go with a "business" level one; particularly the nVidia cards and wireless
chipsets are better than on the consumer-level ones (in my experience at
least). I can't install Linux on my D830 due to work restrictions but I can
boot to a live Ubuntu CD with all hardware supported natively. It
absolutely flies running the OS from a USB stick with 3 GB RAM in the
laptop. This includes an nVidia Quadro NVS graphics card and Intel Pro
3945ABG wireless card; Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 GHz.
It's a thing of beauty and I look forward to the day it's maintenance
expires at work and hopefully I become the proud owner of a decommissioned
work laptop that works effortlessly with Linux.
In general, our experience at work has been: HP desktops are great (again,
"business" grade not home or consumer grade), but HP laptops we gave up on
and went back to Dell. That's just our experience though.
HTH even a little bit.
Mark
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:01 AM, SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL <
macdowell.smd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a HP Pavillon tx1420us. I wouldn't by HP laptop anymore. I had a
lot of problems and poor help.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jump
id=reg_R1002_USEN<http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jump%0Aid=reg_R1002_USEN>
mac
G'day,laptop
My name is Alexander Kapshuk.
I am looking to purchase a Dell laptop with excellent Linux support
(Debian
Lenny).
Here are the specifications I am after:
CPU = Inter Core 2 Duo;
RAM = 3GB or 4GB;
Graphics Card = NVIDIA GeForce;
Hard Drive = 250GB or 320GB;
With a webcam;
With a card reader;
Wi Fi: anything but Broadcom (i was told Broadcom Wi Fi has a lousy Linux
support, correct me if I'm wrong);
I would appreciate it if somebody would recommend a model of a DELL
that meets the specs above or similar as this is going to be a
considerable
investment for me and I want to make sure that the laptop I end up buying
has very good Linux support.
Looking forward to hearing from any of you that would care to respond at
your convenience.
Thanking you all in advance
Alexander Kapshuk.
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