[Gllug] Linux laptop?

Thom May thom at positive-internet.com
Fri May 24 09:48:48 UTC 2002


* Alan Peery (peery at io.com) wrote :
> Thom May wrote:
> 
> >* Bruce Richardson (itsbruce at uklinux.net) 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. 
> >>   
> >>
> >I'm _very_ happy with my VAIO. software suspend now works, and all that it
> >needs is full ACPI <fx type="pokes" target="davej"/> support and everything
> >works. 
> >
> > 
> >
> Which VAIO?  IIRC, there are a number of different models that carry the 
> VAIO branding.  Some of them also have quite unusual devices like the 
> memory stick port or the jog dial.
> 

SR-27K - the one smaller than the Z600, with both memory stick _and_ jog
dial.
Only with 10gig HDD, but that's more than enough for just debian.
Cheers,
-Thom


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