On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, [email protected] wrote:
Anyone have a recommendation on a current model laptop that works fairly
well with rhel5 64bit and a xen kernel? I know ATI and Intel video both
work fairly decently out of the box, not sure about nvidia. I looked at
RedHat's HCL, and there were very few laptops, mainly Dell Precision e6300
and IBM [TX]61.
I had always heard good things about the IBM T series and linux, but one of
my co-workers installed it on his T61 and had all sorts of issues.
i've been playing with an HP 6910p, but keep getting IRQ conflicts with the
keyboard, sd card, and wireless.
I have a Thinkpad X200s and it works well with RHEL5.2 (and one of the
newer RHEL5.3 kernels). The only problematic parts are the fingerprint
reader (unsupported), 3D support (compiz crashes Xorg) and power usage.
You can find a list of hardware that works out of the box or that
requires little tweaks here:
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/my-rationale-for-the-lenovo-thinkpad-x200s
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Lenovo/Thinkpad-X200s
The only critical issue for me is power management. It currently uses
about 15W during normal usage (2.5h on a 4-cell battery) while it is
possible to cut this down to about 9W (about 4h) with newer kernels.
Using a 9-cell battery (which I am waiting to be delivered) you would go
from 5.5h to 11h, unfortunately these power-management features have not
been backported to 2.6.18 and it is quite possible it may never happen.
PS The Thinkpad X200s comes with Microsoft tax included :-/
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