[ale] laptop advice needed

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Sat May 23 23:03:55 EDT 2009


Scott McBrien wrote:
> Some of the sleep/suspend stuff on the Lenovo line is settings in the  
> bios, a dash of the desktop software, and a pinch of kernel.  RHEL 5.2  
> and 5.3 work well, as do Fedora, which isn't surprising considering  
> the Red Hat corporate standard is Lenovo Laptops.
> 
> That said, my MacBook also, "just works", but was significantly more  
> $pendy.

Can you define 'just works' because there are a number of things on my 
macbook pro that don't work with the standard kernel.  I have to build a 
kernel to get sound, backlit keyboard and such working.

> 
> -Scott
> 
> On May 23, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> I never got sleep/suspend working on the T60 they issued me. After 9
>> months of tinkering I traded it for a MacBook Pro.
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> IBM LENOVO THINKPAD T60 DUO CORE 2.00GHZ XP PRO WI-FI - $250 -
>>> That's a good price on a laptop that works well running Linux.  I  
>>> ran RHEL 5
>>> on one for about a year.
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have a Dell Latitude D620 for work. Fedora 10. If I close the lid,
>>>> it suspends.
>>>>
>>>> More importantly, when I open the lid it resumes!
>>>>
>>>> The wireless required that I load the firmware into /lib/firmware.
>>>> Once done, it works well. It has reassociation issues as the AP's  
>>>> seem
>>>> to hiccup and when moving around campus but a quick script with a
>>>> panel button to stop NetworkManager, stop networking, unload the
>>>> wireless module and restart it all and it works fine for me.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>>>>> The only Linux laptop advice I can give is buy one that comes with
>>>>>> some form of linux. Otherwise you're likely to spend months on
>>>>>> sleep/suspend, wireless, and video issues. It doesn't have to come
>>>>>> with your distro of choice. If the OEM got Linux to work, so can  
>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>
>>>>> You have to be careful. Sometimes the OEM has little experience  
>>>>> with
>>>>> linux and didn't really get it to work. Just google for eee pc  
>>>>> wireless
>>>>> and look at the complaints.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Dell has done a good job supporting Ubuntu on their  
>>>>> laptops. You
>>>>> can get the Inspiron 15N ($374), Mini 9 ($264), or 1330N ($834)  
>>>>> with an
>>>>> integrated webcam. You can configure the 15N pretty nicely for  
>>>>> around
>>>>> $500.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dell.com/ubuntu
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>> Brian Pitts
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>>>>
>>>>
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