Hello folks, I in a desperate need of a new notebook/laptop for the oncoming school year. On a whim I've purchased this laptop in Office Depot Toshiba Satellite L675D-S7016 *$634.99* http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/L670/L675D-S7016 It works somewhat . . . It has a slow 100MB only Realtek RTL8102E Ethernet controller and Realtek 8172 WiFi controller which I cannot make working, no matter what I did. Its ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphic controller is not performing in KDE4 as well as nVidia on my RIP old Sager laptop. No openGL support and dodgy scrolling and windows moving /resizing. I'm running open SUSE 11.2 on this new thing, which I'm going to return back to the store.
Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience, a decent notebook with the following characteristics: 1. 15 - 17" Display 2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is fine as long as it's AMD 3. 1 GB Ethernet controller 4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with Linux without excessive headaches. 5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I can live with ATI Radeon. 6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have older and slower DDR2 RAM. 7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors. Thank you in advance for any hints or recommendations, Alex _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
