<Apparently, you have not seen any of HP's "thin and light" turion64 based notebooks. They are really good (especially their "Lance Armstrong" series) and relatively inexpensive. (If you paid attention to Sunday's ads, you will definitely get an unmistakable impression that HP has placed big bets on AMD Turion64 notebooks.)>
On the WinXP side, the HP ze2000 that I bought (for the sole purpose of testing Solaris) is a very nice machine; it's fast, weighs slightly more than 5 lb, runs very cool, & has everything I expect from a notebook (close the lid, and power goes to zero). No wonder HP is staging a very nice comeback. On the Linux side (Fedora Core 4, with updates), I tried to install the proprietary chipset driver from ATI but no luck. Thus, I don't have sound & I have to use the generic vesa video driver. On the Solaris side, the situation is similar to that in Linux. If anyone with the "power" (i.e., ability to develop an ATI driver, or sign an NDA with ATI to jointly develop the same) or influence cares about my long involvement with Linux, I strongly suggest that the best way to jump start a Solaris/OpenSolaris community (beyond those already users) is to concentrate Sun's resources to make Solaris 10 work on one (& only one will be necessary) prototypical machine that is very affordable to college students. HP's Turion based notebooks may be just what the doctor ordered. I'll be happy to loan my brand new (& hardly used) HP ze2000 notebook to someone who believes s/he can make things happen. Please someone do something. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
