[wplug] Seeking advice (possibly OT)

[Keir Josephson]

> >
> >As my venerable Toshiba laptop is starting to lose pixels left and
> >right, I'm looking to purchase a new laptop.  I was wondering if anyone
> >out there has any recommendations.  I'll list a few criteria below.  If
> >this is OT/not in the scope of the list, I apologize, but will not turn
> >down any off-list replies.
> >
> >Here's my wish list.
> >
> >Moderately light. (<7 lbs)
> >P4 or decent Athlon/Athlon 64
> >Does not require hours of tweaking to have Linux play nicely.
> >
> >My price range is $1,300 or less, but I can go higher if the laptop in
> >question is particularly sexy.
> 

Over the last couple years I've worked with Apple, Dell, and HP laptops.
The newer Apple products have definitely improved with their support for
Linux. However, I have had wonderful success running Linux on the HP
business laptops. HP seems to be taking Linux support pretty seriously
these days. Check out the nx5000. It's in your price range, weighs about 6
pounds, and you can even configure it with SUSE as the default OS if you 
want.

-Keir