Re: [MLUG] Recommended laptop

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Mark Haidekker wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know we had this topic recently, so please forgive me for
> picking it up once again.
> 
> Can you recommend a decent laptop that runs fine with Linux? What's the 
> general consensus?

While I'm drumming my fingers waiting for a last minute quote...

I think that in the archives, Dell was mentioned a lot, there is a
big Sony VAIO contingent, and IBM ThinkPads used to be openly (by
IBM) supported, although that latter may have changed.  I have a
ThinkPad A21P that does very nicely with Linux (and Win2K...).

On a ThinkPad, I recommend you use GNU parted to shrink the single
Win2K partition those guys ship with, install Linux on most of the
disk (:-)), and use the Win2K bootloader to choose at boot-time.

If by "Linux" you really meant "some Unix variant" I can also
strongly recommend the Apple iBook and PowerBook.  You can also
actually run Linux on those, too, if you must.  The possible
advantage for the Apple notebook is the (for some people huge) point
that everything "just works", notably wireless networking, USB, and
Firewire.  The only notable disadvantage with those is the usual 
"3-buttons" problem that is worse with Apple than a Windows notebook 
(2-button only) since there is only one button.

jking

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