On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > ... > HP has been making special efforts to at least try to make their > notebooks Linux compatible. As such, you will have better chance > running Solaris on HP machines. >
Glad to hear that! Last Sunday it came time to dip into our middle kid's college fund (courtesy grandma/pa) for a laptop for his dorm room this fall. I handed him a pile of Sunday flyers and set the price limit at $650. He picked the HP Pavilion dv6408nr... Specs: http://tinyurl.com/3daeyh ... which was on sale at Best Buy. Man, I'm amazed at what can be had in that price-range these days -- in terms of bells/whistles, component quality, and array of ports and slots. --Eric P.S. Hm, now, if I could only sneak into his room to run install_check http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html and Belenix LiveCD... Problem is, I'm sure he's boobytrapped it against younger sibling's hands. Hm, maybe Dad's too for that matter :-)! But OpenSolaris should support it just fine -- epecially given its nVidia 6150 graphics. Though I don't know yet what the wireless chipset is -- hopefully not Broadcom. P.S.S. Oh, and check this out... Eastern Illinois U. (where he's going), lists Ubuntu as a supported system for dorm residents. http://techguide.eiu.edu/student/res.php Oh, and their recommended word processor? ... StarOffice 8 of course! http://its.eiu.edu/software/
