Laptop recommendations

[agabriel at home.tzo.org]

Jerry is right about my NIC in the 1700.  I run a 100MBit card
instead.  Last time I emailed Donald Becker he said he was getting close
with it, that was awhile ago.  I should contact him again.  Other than
that the 1700 is great.

Anthony

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> A I mentioned before, I have a Compaq Pressario 1900LX161 running SuSE. No 
> dual boot. I was able to buy my laptop at the Compaq Factory outlet (with 
> an employee discount). I have not had any troubles with it. I use a Netgear 
> 10/100 cardbus PC card. There is a builtin Lucent winmodem which works fine 
> also, Installed the ltmodem module I downloaded from Lucent.
> 
> The newer models have built in NICs. Tony Gabrielson was unable to get the 
> builtin NIC working on his 1700. The 1800 series has a different chip.
> My Daughter and another friend have an 1800 with a 15" screen. I've not 
> heard of any problems with these. We have Compaq Armadas at work, and 
> several are running Linux.
> Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> > I'm thinking of buying a laptop.  I'm only interested in using it for
> > Linux and maybe Solaris (i. e. I have no interest in dual booting into
> > Redmond).  I want something with enough juice to let me do software
> > development on Gimp-print (that is, RAM and screen space; disk space
> > is a given, and my C-450 is plenty fast enough).  A writable CD for
> > backup etc. would be nice.  I also want to keep the price reasonable.
> > There seems to be a big gap in price between what Best Buy, Costco,
> > and the like sell, and what IBM, EmperorLinux, and such sell, based on
> > seemingly equal specs.  I don't much care about new vs. used;
> > size/weight also doesn't matter too much to me, because I don't mind
> > carrying around fairly large objects; 5 lb. wouldn't bother me.
> > Certainly appearance doesn't matter.
> > 
> > I'd prefer something that's comfortable running SuSE, since that's
> > what I currently have on my desk, but that's not absolutely
> > mandatory.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > -- 
> > Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu>      http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
> > 
> > Tall Clubs International  --  http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
> > Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf at uunet.uu.net
> > Project lead for Gimp Print/stp --  http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
> > --Eric Crampton
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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