On Thursday 29 March 2007 19:08, David Brodbeck wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > We, at the BLU, run Linux installfests every quarter, and the one brand > > of laptop that tends to be the easiest to install is the > > Lenovo Thinkpad. > > I love Thinkpads. They're all I'll buy anymore. I do have occasional > hardware issues with them (I have yet to get suspend/resume, or even > automated shutdown, to work on my T22 since I installed SuSE 10.2) but > they're the most durable and reliable laptops I've used. The build > quality just seems to be a cut above. They're not cheap, though.
Personally I think they are the best on the market but as IBM found out they are not Linux compatible because it cost to much to make them Linux hardware compatible for the volume of boxes they will initially sell. So what happens is that they are designed for things like Winmodems which makes them more competitive in the MS world. If a manufacture could reasonable expect to get the same chip set in the Winmodems all the time then a manufacture could reasonable create a winmodem for that laptop but modem manufactures\s do not ship the same chipset in every modem. One could of course replace a winmodem with a real modem if it would physically fit in the box which it will not. That becomes a issue then of what does a hardware do. Redesign the physical internal layout of the laptop or write a software modem that will only be used in a very small number of boxes before it has to be changed? All of this bull as you would call it plus the $1800 US is why I have not bought a new laptop to replace the one I dropped. I just do not care about fighting about why Linux is not compatible, or about working 2 to 3 months to make it compatible if the new laptop's modem is not compatible with Linux and you can bet that the newest of the new will be incompatible. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
