[Gllug] [OT] Linux exp on notebooks

Simon Morris simon.morris at cmtww.com
Mon May 22 13:26:27 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:00 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I have to buy a personal laptop preferbly IBM or Dell.
> Can someone share some ideas which one should i go, constraint is
> Linux
> (Debian, Redhat) should work out of the box in terms of WiFi, VGA
> (1260
> X 1150 resolution), modem etc.
> Till now i had a look on D410 but thats too expensive, what about IBM
> t40 or t43?

Linux works very well on the Thinkpad range - I use SUSE on a T42 and
everything I need works great.

However - I think the price gets a bit steep if you want a higher
resolution (or maybe my organisation just likes buying the el cheapo
1024x768 ones :) )

Thanks

~sm
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