Rich Payne said: >On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote: > >> >> So, if they could at least offer a model that can auto-install SuSE 8.0, >> that did not have any Microsoft product on it, I'd be very interested. > >I think Bayard hits upon a very good point here. If IBM can't justify >selling Linux pre-loaded on laptops (and I understand why) then how about >selling Thinkpads with no OS? Surely this is the next best (or for us geek >types a better) thing. > >FWIW, I've had about 6 laptops so far - 5 Thinkpads and now a Sony Vaio >Slimbook. Most of the Thinkpads were employer owned and I must say that >most ran Linux w/o to much trouble (back to the 755 I think), the one >glaring exception of course was the MWave modem. I'd also much rather be >using one today (that is if they made an Athlon version :) >
I recently bought a toshiba laptop to replace one that died. The old one had a working modem (28.8), the new one that has a winmodem. Everything else works very nicely. I have a PCMCIA modem just for winmodems, but it's be nice if the builtin one worked. The old laptops let you install a modem after you bought it, but that was always more $$$ then the PCMCIA modems. I'd say winmodems are the worst part of today's laptops and the easiest to work around. A non working graphics card or sound would make me return the laptop. btw - my old laptop was a P150. With a 1GHz Celeron on a wireless network, I never fire up my desktop. -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
