On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 00:35 -0700, Richard Scott McNew wrote: > Sony VAIO laptops have generally worked well for me. My current > laptop is a little VAIO and a previous one was also. They tend to be > slightly expensive, but to date I've never had any hardware failures > or incompatibilities. I've also had an older HP zt series that ran > linux wonderfully and without complaint.
Dunno about linux stuff, but we have one Vaio in the department that is always having problems. Probably more a user problem than anything else, but we already had to send it away (no on-site repairs like Dell and Apple) to replace the motherboard and a drive. I really dislike the design of the Vaio. By the time you have everything you need attached (cd drive, extra battery) you wonder why it was you bought a tiny laptop in the first place. Evan McNabb had a 12" Vaio and if I recall correctly the keyboard had a really crummy shift key (impossible to hit with your pinky). He also had a lot of hardware problems with it and has now gone to thinkpads. In my experience there are better laptops than the Vaio. Michael > > Of course, if I were you I would check Google and Linux on Laptops > (http://www.linux-laptop.net/) to see other folks' reviews before I > bought anything. > > > On 3/24/06, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/24/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Macbook Pro? > > > > > > > > It can run linux, has a PCI-Express ATI X1600, integrated 802.11a/g/b, > > > > > > Does that a/g/b work under Linux though? Apple's last wireless card > > > (Airport Extreme) is just now getting support under Linux. It was a > > > broadcom card, and had to be reverese engineered... > > > > Honestly, I've no idea. But they say that RedHat is going to support > > the MacBook Pro: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13453 > > > > ~ Nathan > > > > -------------------- > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
