At work we are a Dell shop...and we do get the odd keyboard issues from the C600 Latitudes we have. However they run OK. I would steer away from a laptop that requires a PCMCIA network card because they don't have the same bandwidth... We sometimes use our laptops for testing link throughput. I have found the PCMCIA cards are limited to <10MB/s despite the marking on the package (this was using ttcp). Get one with integrated miniPCI nic as they perform at the advertised 100MB/s.On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:18:06 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road.
So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?
And, if so, which flavor of linux?
Dude! It's a Dell!
We bought 10 Dell's at work about a year ago to use as a portable classroom. We have loaded various versions of Redhat and Suse on them with no problems. In fact, we had a tech at work who knows nothing about Linux do the installs. A year ago I went to Beijing with a colleague who brought one of them with him. Over the Pacific, he ran a seismic inversion job on it - had it plugged into the power outlet in the seat. Pretty amazing. The inversion only took about 8 hours, as I recall.
I think IBM is a more finished brand of laptop however YGWYPF.
My brother has a Toshiba and it's a steaming pile of.... I mean he has had HDD failures and the servicing meant he didn't have a laptop for weeks at a time. (this is in UK)
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