Re: Good Linux Laptop?

From: Bill Waddington (william.waddington_at_beezmo.com)
Date: 12/12/04

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    On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:32:59 +0100, Kalevi Nyman <kan@canit.se> wrote:

    >Which laptop is a good choice for using Linux?
    >By looking trough several reviews I can't figure
    >it out. Most reviews concentrate on installation
    >but that is not what I want to know. Maybe I'm too
    >picky on this but I'm sure that you fellows have
    >some own experience and can give me an advice
    >or two.

    Here is another vote for ThinkPads. My R40 runs Fedora Core 2 - and
    previously RedHat 8 and 9 quite nicely. With a little fiddling all
    the laptop stuff - suspend, hibernate, speedstep, etc. work well.
    Mine is a Centrino and battery life is around 4hrs.

    I did find that the R40 is much happier in APM mode than ACPI. I
    wonder if that is the general consensus, or if I have missed a trick.

    It seems fully functional in APM mode (w/an additional FAT32 partition
    for hibernation) so there is no need to change. Just curious.

    Bill 

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William D Waddington
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