[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Richard Bronosky]

I'm pretty sure it was a T60. I know that is was Intel everything
(cpu, video, wireless). My issues (from memory of early 2007)
included:
  hibernate/suspend
  power management/battery life
  dual head without reboot [1] [2]
  finger print scanner
  extra/media keys
  video playback weirdness after getting dual head to work

[1] Luckily at MySQLConf07 Stewart Smith http://www.flamingspork.com/
introduced me to Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/about/ who along
with Ross Burton http://burtonini.com/ and Keith Packard
http://keithp.com/ got me working. That's a lot of fire power required
for such a common need.
[2] I interviewed 70+ of Linux laptop toters are the conference and
only 3 of them could use an external display without rebooting. JW was
the only one who knew what he did to make it happen.

.!# RichardBronosky #!.



On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:53 AM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard,
> I currently use a Mac as well, but until November last year, I ran laptops
> with RHEL for the previous 7 years.  In the beginning, things were painful,
> but my last one, at Lenovo T60 was pretty easy.  I mentioned the wackiness
> with the external VGA port on this thread earlier, but other than that,
> never had a problem with the machine.  I know I'm a pretty light "desktop"
> user, chat, web, email, and a little office; but for all those things RHEL,
> or CentOS worked well.  I would have run Fedora as my laptop distro, but was
> lazy and didn't want to re-install every 4-6 months.
> What kind of issues were you having with running a Linux Laptop?
> *crosses fingers* Please don't say hibernate/suspend...
> -Scott
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've vented on this very issue many times. I have been doing all my
>> work via SSH to Linux servers (ssh+screen+bash+vim+mysql all day
>> everyday) for so long I thought of myself as a "Linux guy"... until I
>> tried using a laptop. The entire GUI stack just drives me crazy. But,
>> it was trying to get a decent portable workstation that drove me to
>> give my ThinkPad back to my employer and ask for a MacBook Pro. I
>> can't wait until I can scrap the Mac forever. Until I can spend 75% of
>> my computing time doing my work and not trying to get my machine to
>> work, I'm a "Linux server guy" and a "Mac laptop guy". I hate that it
>> has to be that way!
>>
>> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Warning: This message contributes nothing helpful to the conversation.
>> >
>> > The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top
>> > 3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops
>> > issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems
>> > that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must
>> > say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.
>> >
>> > A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such
>> > easy? That would be OS X.
>
>
>
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