[ale] Laptop Questions

[rhiannen]

Add another vote for the Thinkpads.  We have a 600X and a T20 and
love'em both - still running strong & solid.  IBM is serious about
Linux.  

I've loaded Slackware & OpenBSD on my 600X with no headaches.
Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the older (6.x & older) guified
install versions of RedHat, and Mandrake 8.0/8.1.  8.1 installed, it
just had this really nasty habit of "forgetting" the root account &/or
password; 8.0 & the older RH couldn't seem to comprehend a built in
mouse.  Haven't bothered with RH7.x as Slack suits me just fine & I
haven't felt up to experimenting much lately.  For the record, the newer
IBM T20 didn't have the same issues.

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Prasanna Subash wrote:
> 
> my IBM thinkpad rocks! they even have linux drivers for the soft-modem crap(
> mwave)  on the IBM site. However, the downside is, thinkpads are a little
> more expensive.
> 
> just my 2 cents
> On Monday 29 July 2002 11:40, cfowler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm hoping I could get some good feedback here.  I went to CompUSA to
> > look at Laptops.  But it is so hard determining if Linux works on them.
> > I'm thinking about the Toshiba Satellite system.  Can someone here give
> > me advise on purchasing a new laptop to run Linux on.  I'm looking to
> > spend around $1500+ so I get a *good* and *fast* one.  I do not want to
> > be locked down to winbloze.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
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