Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > Thanks for the tidbit, opens my eyes up to more options if I chose another vendor. I looked at the Tectra's more than 2 years ago when they first came out, but didn't have the cash at the time, and I thought they were very good looking and had the most compatible parts at the time. It's good to see they are continuing to make compatible laptops. Now for their older P3 and P4 units, those are another situation, and that's what kept me from buying any Toshiba, namely display failures and bad disks, but this is just my experience, and it seems they changed many of their components. I prefer Maxtor, Hitachi and Fujitsu hard disks, but it's the norm to cheaply use Segates and Western Digital, but that aside it was probably the whole ATI vs NVIDIA issue that ultimately stopped me from considering Toshiba, years ago.
James
