Re: OT: Which laptop for SuSE Linux in England?

From: paul cooke (paul_cooke_at_linux_NO_SPAM_mail.org)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:36:39 GMT

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> Anybody from the UK surf this group got any suggestions with regards to
> laptops that they have been comfortable using with SuSE?

don't get a Packard Bell iGo... it's stuffed to the brim with proprietary
hardware. I can't get 3D working at all on the SIS650 integrated video or
use the monitor out, and the modem's a winmodem and not even seen.

However, the onboard NIC never gives me trouble. 

-- 
Word is a fine tool when you don't need your output to
look identical on every machine that might use it.
Erik Funkenbusch, comp.os.linux.advocacy. Mar/2004

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