On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 06:53, Jim Crumley wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendation for laptops to use with > Linux? I sometimes hate to say it, but take a look at Dell. Their Inspiron line is usually fairly reasonably priced, and they offer a lot of what you're looking for. They can be pretty heavy, but you usually get both a trackpad and a trackpoint. They also offer some of the highest-resolution displays you can get on a laptop. It's been possible to get their modems working in the past, though I don't know what things are like these days. You may want to pick your video card carefully. As I recall, the nVidia cards tend to get unhappy when the system tries to sleep (and it's impossible to fix, since nVidia loves binary drivers), so I've always seen it best to get an ATI card, but I don't know if that's true these days. There's always the fallback option of using VESA drivers, but they're slow (not too bad when your processor speed is in the gigahertz, but still slow). I had to do that for a few months while the XFree86 folks built in support for the card I had (an ATI one). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Linux Geeks: Smart. Single. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Sexy. Well, 2 out of 3 \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) ain't bad. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030417/5da44b02/attachment.pgp