<OT> Soon to look for Laptop

[Bob Raymond]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:20:23 -0800 (PST) Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Most of the major computer vendors' laptops are all made by the same
> company, Quanta.  That said, there's not much difference in quality
> between IBM, HP, Gateway, Compaq or SONY.
> 
> Thinkpads have a great reputation as being the workhorses of the laptop
> world.  
> 
> I personally own a SONY VAIO and an HP XE2.  Both are quite nice in
> their own ways (and both are relatively old/slow with a P-300 and
> PII-433 CPU respectively). 
> 
> At any rate, don't chain yourself to the notion that IBM is best in the
> laptop world.  Go to http://www.linux-laptop.net and look up whatever it
> is you're considering purchasing.  That's where i did all of my
> research.

Quanta is not the only company. There's also Compal and Clevo, and a few
others.  IBM and Sony make their own, and I think there might be a handful
of others.  Some Dells are made by Compal, and some by Quanta.  My HP was
made by Compal (can tell because that's who made the battery).  Toshiba and
Sager notebooks are usually made by Clevo.  Another thing you might have to
consider if you want dialup internet- a PC Card modem that isn't a
winmodem.  I recently installed SuSE on a friend's Sager notebook with one
of those Intel v92 HAM modems.  Couldn't get the thing working, so I
managed to find a decent PC Card hardware modem for $150 off (3Com modems can be
pricey).  But now that notebook runs Linux fine, and my friend couldn't be
happier to leave the M$ world.  I think that notebook's a bit out of your
price range, however- $1850 for a P-4 1.8ghz, 256mb DDR, 15" UXGA+ with
Mobility Radeon 7500, CDRW/DVD combo and CD drive, 30GB HD.  Not necessary
for what you're doing, either.

Bob Raymond

> --- Rick Sivernell <res005ru at gte.net> wrote:
> >  Lonni
> > 
> >   went to the site you sent, loots of stuff, even found the same 
> > machine for the same price too. The machine I saw today was 
> > a IBM TP 600E. Also doing some extensive research here &
> > there is a lot. I like Calders 3.1.1, & I will put kde2 on, just for
> > the kdevelop. There is not much out there for c++ development.
> > But having said that, I will use xfce as the desktop. It just nice.
> > What laptops do you think are the best for linux, your recommends.
> 
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> Lonni J. Friedman                     netllama at linux-sxs.org
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