Re: help with laptop purchase?

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:12 -0400, hswerdfe wrote:

I am looking for a laptop.
and am leaning towards a HP or Thinkpad.
because they seem to have the lease amount of problems on.
http://tuxmobil.org/
and
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

I found an article from 2005 saying that HP was ensuring that some
laptops would at least work if you installed Ubuntu on it.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/05/12/hp_to_offer_customized_linux_for_notebooks_in_europe/index.html

HP's laptops... from my own experience.. is not great. Their ACPI
implementation always causes some headaches. With that said, I do
have SUSE 10.0 on a nc6230 (relatively contemporary.. still sold by HP).
But it does require the dmi hack for the thing to reboot/shutdown...

Can't speak too much on the IBM's... have not tried on anything
relatively recent.

My favorites have been the Dell Latitude/Precision series.

YMMV...
.

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