[Leaplist] Linux Laptop

[Fred Moore]

Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 06:43 -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote:
>   
>> I'm in the market for a new laptop.  I'm really not interested in
>> tweaking the thing for a month and a half to make it work with linux.
>> I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee for that to be a reality.
>>
>> Has anyone here ever purchased a laptop from
>> http://www.emperorlinux.com?
>>
>> I pulled them from this list: http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html.  Any
>> recommendations from anyone on list?
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I don't know how big of a laptop you want, but the HP that I've got
> worked just fine as far as hardware drivers go including the camera, the
> bluetooth, integrated card readers, the volume and play controls across
> the top of the keyboard, even the infrared remote that came with it
> works. Even hibernation on lid close works perfectly.
>
> It is the HP Pavillion dv9823cl. It's big, but I wanted a big screen and
> not a small footprint. We bought two of them when they were on sale last
> year at $599 each.
>
> With Fedora 12, the only thing I had to tweak was Flash and Nvidia,
> which took all of 30 minutes and came from the repository.
>
>
>   
I am very happy with Thinkpads.  I have a T23, and T43 both work just
fine.  Run everything from debian to Fedora, now using Fedora 12,  I
know Phil had as much success on a T60.  In fact Friday I ordered a
T60,  TigerDirect.com  T60 off 2 year lease, refurbished with XPpro, 2gb
ram, CD r/w, DVD rom,  160 gb hd, 30 day warranty, 439 dollars.  This
will be my work machine.. and will be perfect for traveling around the
state..
Regards.. Fred

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