Laptop recomendations

[John Bowden]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 10/03/07, John Bowden <john.bowden43 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > I'm just about to purchase a laptop and have narrowed it down to a
> > choice of these:
> >
> > Hp Compaq Nx7300 Cel-m 430 / 512mb 80gb Dvd+/-rw Dl 15.4-tft Wxga Wxp
> > Pro Qw-uk
> >
> > Lenovo 3000 C200 Cel-m 430 / 512mb 80gb 15-tft Dvd Recordable Aud Wlan
> > Vista Hbasic Qw Ts
> >
> > Hp 510 P-m 770 / 512mb 60gb Dvd+/-rw 15.4-tft Wxga Wxp Home
> >
> > Dell Inspiron 1501.
> > Anyone had any experiance with getting FC6 onto any of these? Any
> > recomendations?
> > --
> > Registered Linux user number 414240
> > Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest
> > intentions and he was going to blow them up
> >
> 
> I'm running FC6 on a Dell 6400/E1505 right now. Widescreen display
> works, touchpad works, wifi works, usb works, card reader works, VGA
> output works.
> 
> Problems:
> 1) DON"T TOUCH the Media button. It goes looking for NTFS paritions
> and ERASES EVERYTHING when it doesn't find one. Lost my first FC
> install that way. I peeled off the Intel Inside and Vista Ready
> metallica stickers from the front of the unit and put them over the
> media button to prevent accidentally hitting the damn thing.
> 2) Bluetooth has proven elusive, but I haven't tried very hard to get
> it working.
> 3) Sometimes when returning from sleep/hibernate the keyboard nor
> mouse work. So it's 5 seconds on the Power button to power down and
> power back up.
> 4) The media buttons on the front of the unit seem to be decorative
> only. Can't get them to do anything other than light up blue.
> 5) Although I was able to control the backlight from the built-in Fn
> keys when I first installed Fedora, I can no longer do that. I'm not
> sure if it was an upgrade or something else, but I can no longer
> adjust the screen backlight.
> 6) The machine is built from pressed crap. The keyboard is nice to
> type on, but the screen is glossy, the rubber shoes fell off in less
> than a month, and the machine gets scratched just by breathing on it.
> 
> Also, know that Dell provides NO HELP to the linux community, in
> contrast to HP. At least, as far as PDA's go. I'm sorry that I
> purchased a x50v and swore that it would be the last of my Dell
> hardware. But I was stupid and gave them my money for this lappy. I'd
> suggest pressuring Dell by NOT buying their equipment.
I have just had a chat with a friend of mine on the phone and he did not
have any thing good to say about Dell's home support, and his miss-is
used to work for their support office
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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> 
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Registered Linux user number 414240
Guy Fawkes the only person to enter the Parliament with honest
intentions and he was going to blow them up