[ale] Linux on new laptops

[Cor van Dijk]

Dow_Hurst wrote:

>I have a new Compal EFL30.  It was bought as a branded Intrex laptop but is made by the ODM, Compal.  Personally, I love it now that I've figured out the initial problems.  It was $1600 with a 3 yr warranty.  Has 1.23Gb RAM, 80Gb HD, DVD ROM/CD-RW, 1280x768 TFT, builtin web cam, firewire port, 4 USB ports, builtin LAN, soft modem (SUSE 93 friendly), PCMCIA slot, SD/MMC/MS Pro card slot, 4 button touchpad (Elantech), miniPCI wifi ipw2200 B/G, and a very pretty prescratched up looking white enamel coating.  So, I think you'd like this one.  The battery life is about 3 hours or so.  The ACPI battery module is what was giving me the problems.  By not allowing it to be modprobe'd during boot, I've gotten a stable mouse and reliable operation.  The builtin electronics in the BIOS and battery let me know via sound and LED that the battery is getting low so I didn't really need the battery module functions anyway.  The CPU frequency module works great for saving on the battery life. 
>  Oops!  The battery is getting low so I've got to go.
>Later,
>Dow
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raylynn Knight <audilover at speedfactory.net>
>Sent: Sep 19, 2005 11:00 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Linux on new laptops
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>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:25 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>I'm in the market for a new laptop.  I'm looking for something that is <
>>$1000 and it must run Linux.  I would like to know if anyone here can
>>recommend a recent model that works well.  I thought about buying a Mac
>>but I program in Linux and I need to run Linux.
>>
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>Linux runs just fine on most PowerBooks.  There are even a few more
>choices for a distro now.  Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, YellowDog and more.
>
>Ray
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Two weeks ago I bought a hp pavilion zv6000 at fry's for about 1450. It 
has 1 Gb ram, 2.4 Gb CPU, 100 Gb hd and a dvdwriter. The first one was 
DOA, the replacement (they tried to screw me by replacing it with a 
refurbished one!) has worked so far. It has no floppy drive, no serial 
port, but has all sorts of things I have never heard of, but will 
eventually figure out.
It of course has redmond stuff. It happily accepted SuSE9.3 after a 
little bit of a struggle.
I guess you guys with all the DSL and ISDN stuff would not be interested 
in modem talk,
but I have a story there, contact me if you are interested. The mouse is 
horrible, no port for ps/2 mouse either, unlike my old Sony laptop.

SuSE9.3 professional informed me that I was installing a 32 bit OS on a 
64 bit system, but went ahead anyway and so far worked ok. The 64 bit 
SUSE9.3 which I tried to install hung when formatting (or maybe I was 
impatient, anyway, after an hour I had enough); need help on this one. I 
leave it at this for the time being.
Cor van Dijk