On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:07:36 pm John Summerfield wrote: > > w00t! That doesn't mean that I can yet BUY the notebook with SUSE but at > > least they mention it. > > Personably, I'm rather partial to Thinkpads;-) IBM has supported Linux on > some Thinkpads for years, and I think the Chinese crew's following suit.
Okay, thanks to you, Joachim, James and M. I'll take a look. I'm not sure I "can" buy IBM, but I'll research them. (We have agreements with various vendors, and I'm not sure one of them is IBM.) > > I recently bought a used R40 2722-GDM (near the top of the R40s I think, > with 1 1440x1050 low-gloss screen. I hate glossy screens, I thought they > were a bad idea when IBM introduced them for the IBM PC (the CGA monitor), > and I still think so. Also, while widescreens might be good for watching > videos, that's not what I want to do. Believe it or not, I need the widescreen for work. :P Seriously, our app is written with at least 1280x1024 screens in mind. Almost everyone - except for about 50 people using the touch screens - has 24" LCD widescreen monitors. Here are screens in full resolution. They don't load on my current laptop. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_test_cashier_lg.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_20071207.jpg Though we won't be watching movies - much - we will be utilizing widescreens. I *promise* not to load the full DVD version of Kaffeine/Xine on the systems. :P > > Reputedly the T series have better Linux compatibility. The only problems I > have are Wireless (Atheros, requires third-party mostly OSS driver), and > I'm not sure whether the modem works, though Google thinks it does. Modem? Oh - I remember those! Yeah. Honestly, I haven't used one in over five years. Do they come faster than 300 baud these days? Can I put my cordless phone into the acoustic coupler? > > Toshiba actively supports Linux on its hardware too, but it's a little > quieter about it. Well, they must be! I hadn't even heard. > > One of the nicer things about the Thinkpads is their Ultrabay: one can > hot-remove the Optical drive and replace it with something else, a battery, > a second disk drive.... > > Oh, _my_ R40 has the Ultranav thing, a "joystick" thing in the middle of > the keyboard that one can lean on to move the mouse cursor plus three mouse > buttons, all functioning under Linux. There's also the usual touchpad, with > two buttons and scrolling and clicking gestures. Ahh, the eraser. I had a DX/120 thinkpad way back when with the eraser. Very interesting. It was right before I got by blazingly fast P133 Fujitsu, on which I immediately loaded Mandrake. I just looked and they seem interesting - about $1000 less than a comparable HP. I wonder why. They do have one thing I was thinking of - a fingerprint reader. That might not be a bad idea. I wonder if there's a SUSE driver for such a thing. HOWEVER I do not see a choice of loading anything but Wintendo. :( I'll be sure and fire off an email right now... -- kai -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
