These days, if I had to choose a laptop, it would be a Toshiba Tecra M5
thru M9. Why? Because apart from being very nice equipment, they are
about to get first class support from Solaris. Even more so than Acer
Ferrari units, we are targetting them as a primary developer's platform
going forward. Any devices that are not supported *now*, soon will be.
These platforms also come with Intel Core 2 processors, Intel WiFi, and
Nvidia graphics. (And I think they use Intel gigE.) So right there the
biggest support problems are gone.
Plus, you want a Core 2 system to take advantage of the power management
work going on. AMD single chips are loosely supported by frkit, but
there is not now, nor will there be soon, support for them in ON. And
AMD dual core chips are just plain not supported (by power management
code) until further notice.
Toshiba also has a pretty positive history of innovation, and of working
with the open source community.
-- Garrett
I almost wonder,
James Cornell wrote:
> Michael Schuster wrote:
>
>> James Cornell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Other good options include the last Thinkpad models made by IBM, the T60
>>> for example.
>>>
>> you need to take care - they come with ATI or Nvidia graphics. Guess
>> which I got ...
>>
>> Michael
>>
> Ouch. Gotcha. :(
> Can't really say much to fix this, since as Alan said they aren't doing
> much to help the situation, every vendor except Intel is remaining
> completely closed. I have a Thinkpad T30, which has an ATI Radeon 7500,
> which is for lack of a better word, slow junk. It's decent with Linux
> DRI, but on OpenSolaris it gets 1/4th the framerate. I've
> decommissioned it in the end partly because of this. Not being able to
> run DVD's decently is an issue, and I have a MacBook Pro which has
> little to no problems, but then again, it doesn't help to say this
> because many people are stuck using components from Broadcom and ATI.
>
> James
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