On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:06:36AM -0600, K B wrote: > I'm looking to purchase a new laptop/notebook computer...Needs to run XP Pro for college (their requirements) > > However, I would also love to run Linux on it - just about any distro (mainly Mandrake, Fedora, Debian, others welcome as well) > > What companies out there either: > > A) Sell laptops preconfigured w/Linux (windows too) > I know they're out there...can't remember the sites though. This isn't necessarily important, since any distro it came with would probably be out of date anyway =) > B) Sell laptops that work fairly well w/Linux > I know Dell and IBM both often work with it...what others do? Dell is _not_ linux friendly, and won't be until they stop selling their hardware with broadcom chipsets. > I'm looking in the $cheap-~$1750 range...any suggestions guys? I purchased a Toshiba A15-S127 for $550 after $250 mail-in-rebates (that I got back in 4 weeks or so) at best buy, I got the one without the built in wireless card since it was only 802.11b. I paid an extra $65 and put my own miniPCI wireless card in it (and attached the existing antennas to it) to get 802.11a/b/g. Specs: Intel P4 Celeron 2.0Ghz (400mhz bus) 256MB PC2100 DDR (Dual SO-DIMM slots, only one in use) 30GB HDD 15" TFT Active Matrix CD-RW+DVD-ROM (24x24x10 CD, 8x DVD) v.92 WinModem (Linux drivers work great) Intel EEPro VE 10/100 Ethernet USB 2.0 "Hi-Speed" x2 Everything worked with RH9 out of the box. I've got Fedora on it now, and with the enhanced ACPI support in the 2.6.x kernels I can now use the screen brightness, system lock, and other hotkeys (including suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk, LCD/CRT/LCD+CRT vid output) Klaptop is working perfectly for handling power (power profiles for on/off AC, what to do at certain battery levels, including turning down the screen brighness) when you combine that with the speedstep throttling I can get just shy of 3 hours battery run-time with normal use. Overall, I'm thoroughly happy with Toshiba, and to top it off the windows keys are at the very far top right hand of the keyboard, out of my way =) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list