A friend of mine had pretty good luck with System76 (<a href="http://system76.com/">http://system76.com/</a>).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryon Gill</b> <<a href="mailto:bgtrio@yahoo.com">
bgtrio@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For what it's worth, I've been using a Thinkpad X60 and it's been easier to
<br>configure than my HP ZD7000 Pavilion was. With the HP I had a heck of a time<br>getting ACPI to work properly, but around the time FC6 came out suspend finally<br>worked out of the box at least. I never could do anything about the fans which
<br>ran constantly and sounded like a jet engine (this was one of the giant 17"<br>screen models).<br><br>With FC6 on the X60 Thinkpad, I had to install madwifi drivers for the wireless,<br>but that's really the only customization I had to do. Suspend works properly,
<br>bluetooth even works so I can use my cell phone as a modem and get pictures off<br>of it. My Lenovo Thinkpad has been a terrific linux box thus far.<br><br>Bryon<br><br>On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Bryan J Smith wrote:<br><br>
> My apologies for my general chide against Thinkpads, but years of dealing with their issues<br>> (including under even NT/Win through NT 5.1/XP/2003) has caused my clients countless hours of issues.<br>> This continues through the latest Thinkpads as well, and their off-shoot designs away from Intel reference.
<br>> Especially when it comes to the continued firmware and the total non-support of BIOS Interrupt 13h Disk Services.<br>> Most of the time, Linux works around them, but early in 2.6, there was an issue when used with GNU Parted/GRUB that defaulted to full, standards compliance.
<br>><br>> --<br>> Bryan J Smith - mailto:<a href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a><br>> <a href="http://thebs413.blogspot.com">http://thebs413.blogspot.com</a><br>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
<br>><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:curlynoodle@gmail.com">curlynoodle@gmail.com</a><br>><br>> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:19:11<br>> To:General user list <<a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">
wplug@wplug.org</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [wplug] Linux laptops<br>><br>><br>> chandan datta wrote:<br>>> Hi Linus users,<br>>> I'm a visiting summer scholar at CMU from New Delhi.I wanted to get
<br>>> myself a new Linux laptop (without MS Vista pre-loaded).I visited the<br>>> CMU Computer store ,but all of them have Vista.Where can I check up a<br>>> good collection of Linux pre-loaded laptops ?
<br>>> I don't want a very high end system-a decent config -WIFI, 128/256 MB<br>>> NVIDIA GPU,1 GB RAM,DVD reader will do(I'm looking for something under<br>>> 1000$).Back at New Delhi I brought one Acer 4100 series with pretty
<br>>> decent config and Linpus linux loaded(it was easy to find).<br>>><br>>> Help me guys !!!<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Regards,<br>>> Chandan.<br>><br>> If you are willing to load Linux yourself, you may want to check out
<br>> <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com">http://www.tigerdirect.com</a>. I have purchased several off-lease, refurbished<br>> Lenovo/IBM laptops in recent years with good results. Most recently, I bought a<br>> IBM T30 which has run both Fedora 6 and Ubuntu
6.10 well.<br>><br>> Dave<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> wplug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">wplug@wplug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug">
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