Re: Recommendations for laptop for travelling

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:12:18 +0000, Haines Brown wrote:

I hesitate to ask a question I could answer though extended research,
but it's good to hear of people's practical experiences. Besides, I know
virtually nothing of laptops.

I'll soon purchase a new laptop on which I'll run debian etch in order
to access my desktop at home while travelling.

What I'd be using it for is simply to import X to run a remote emacs
session and graphical file manager, and locally to run emacs, a browser,
and a graphical file manager. The overriding concern is to carry on such
activities with the greatest reliability and ease.

What I'm looking for a laptop that is as light and has as long a battery
life as possible, that is relatively small and of good quality (I'd like
to avoid the weight and complications of a backup battery). A CDROM
drive is not mandatory, as I would install from a usb-key. I like speed
and so could use a good chunk of RAM, but I'll not be running videos,
compiling or do number crunching. Cost is not an overriding factor.

Any recommendaations and warnings would be much appreciated.

I can't give you a specific suggestion but I'll give you the generic
advice about laptops. The two things to worry about are Wireless and to a
lesser extent graphics. For wireless you want Intel and you should avoid
Broadcom. For graphics either Nvidia or Intel. Nvidia is much faster but
you need the proprietary driver for 3D. The Intel kernel drivers support
3D. Your best bet would be a Core2 based laptop with Intel graphics and
Intel wireless (which is going to be the usual combination for a Core2).
You should avoid ATI graphics and you absolutely must avoid Broadcom.
.

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