[Nottingham][OT] Laptop Advice

Joshua Lock incandescant at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 11:02:59 BST 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 22:43 +0100, Richard Morris wrote:
> On Monday 18 July 2005 14:43, Joshua Lock wrote:
> >
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> 
> > In short can anyone give me an opinion on whether this will work OK and if
> > unsure can anyone recommend a similar spec machine that works great with
> > Linux?
> >
> 
> Joshua,
> 
> If you want to check it and make sure, probably the easiest way is to take a 
> copy of your favorite live CD (mine is Auditor 
> http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main) into PCW and ask them 
> if you can try it to make sure.
> 
> With most HP/Compaq and Toshiba laptops everything works except for the SD 
> card drive. This site has some information that may be of some use for you, 
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com, there are some models similar to the one 
> that you are looking at.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
Good advice, thanks Richard.

I took an Ubuntu live CD into PCWorld and it all worked great.
So I'm sat on the laptop now and of my last 5 computers I have never had
one work so well under Linux; firewire, wifi, suspend etc. Great!

Thanks for everyones input :)

Regards

Josh




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