[Gllug] Linux laptop?

[Tushar Joshi]

Yeah I'm happy with my VAIO, I have the fx604 and it's well priced at 
1200 quid with 15in 256mb 20 gighd, network, dvd drive, cdrw. The
only thing better than that was a..... advent pc which well I was advised 
against and I'm glad. I have everything working in it under linux. 

Only slight problem is overheating but I think that's because I don't
have apm/acpi setup yet.

I don't know how flimsy the unit it though. But there are other vaios
to look at as well as toshiba laptops which are always good.

Tushar


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:25:49PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 21/05/02, 16:12:56, Garry Heaton <garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> wrote 
> regarding [Gllug] Linux laptop?:
> 
> 
> > Can anyone recommend a relatively hassle-free, Linux-friendly laptop?
> 
> As a Sony Vaio owner I can emphatically say not Vaios.  Fine if they 
> worked as they are supposed to but desperately unreliable quality in 
> fact.  Be wary of Compaq - they have bizarre bioses that require 
> management software stored on a DOS partition.  Toshiba are OK.  Dell 
> make very reliable, big and ugly machines
> 
> Don't bother with non-brands.  You find yourself with no proper 
> documentation or helpful user community.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bruce
> 
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