[ale] Laptop Recommendations

[Chris Woodruff]

I have a Vaio but not one with a metal case.  I have one of the dark
purple cases.  I have seen many awards given to the SR line of Vaio's
(think metal case).  You won't get large screen or big HD but they are
nice.  Would I recommend the FX series of Vaio?  I like mine and got it
for around $1500.  I did have to do some custom tweaking to get the
pcmcia and usb working.  If you need something that is 100% linux ready
out o fthe box then I would look into the IBM thinkpad line.  I think
they have ones on the low end that will fit into your budget.  Also the
HP laptops look cool and I have heard they are pretty compatible with
Linux.

Chris Woodruff

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 10:21, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
> 
> Well.  My 3 year old laptop is slowly dying.  Last week the network card
> gave up.  This week I noticed the CDRom no longer works either.
> 
> A moment of silence please.
> 
> Anyway I am in the marked for a new one I am looking for something ~$1,300
> with all the basic features.  It would also be nice if it had one of the
> metal cases like viao or the new Power books.  But I am not trading that
> for power.  Something in an AMD would be nice and I would like for it to
> work with Linux out of the box.  (I battled the ALSA sound module every
> time I installed a new version of RedHat.  Pretty sick of it.)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> http://www.atlantageek.com
> Get inside Atlanta's Tech scene
> 
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