Re: help with laptop purchase?
- From: "Stephen A. Cullum" <scullum@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:35:24 GMT
chuckcar wrote:
hswerdfe <hswerdfe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:e7hjqt$gfs$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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_note
books_in_europe/index.html
and I even found instructions on HP's website, on how to install SUSE
9 on some of the same models.
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/clients/HP_whitepa
per_Mobiles_Linux_062205.pdf
problem is none of the models listed are what I want.
which would be (1G Ram, Core Duo, normal 1.33 ratio screen)
they are all old Pentium M's
I can't find any good reviews of the newer laptops, and when I called the sales number they were clueless about Linux hardware support. in
any of the newer models.
mainly what I am worried about is some of the special laptop stuff not
working like
* external projector or (fn) key(s).
* wireles.
* suspend/hibernate.
* battery monitor (power save)
and some most of the Linux preinstalled vendors, like
* http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100.html
* http://www.emperorlinux.com
seem a little expensive.
so the question is do you know of a laptop the meets my hardware
wants? can have Linux installed, ship to Canada, all at a reasonable
price?
this is my first ever laptop purchase, and I really would like it to
be a good one.
thanks for suggestions.
Are you just calling computer store and asking about "retail" name brand
computers? You might have better luck if you ask about "commercial"
laptops. The difference is cost, warrenty and usually linux support: the
aptiva/presarrio/inspiron/etc lines are designed to purely work in MS
Windows environments at minimum manufacturing cost whereas the
commercial computers are the equivalent of what you used to get when you
bought say an AT clone way back when. Make sure you use the word
commercial as then they'll know what you're talkig about. With consumer
computers they frequently have bizarre sound/video/modem combinations
that quite often just aren't supported by linux. e.g. winmodems although
that problem is somewhat lessened now.
System76 can sale you a laptop with Ubuntu Linux installed on it. I have bought one last April and it works great. They sale a range of computer with Linux installed and most of the stuff you want in your laptop works. the address is http://www.system76.com/ . the cost are more expensive than installing Linux on an off the shelf notebook but the hardware is selected to work with Linux and the expense is not that much more.
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