Laptop recomendations

[John Bowden]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alan" <alan at clueserver.org>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop recomendations


> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 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 a Dell Latitude D800.  It works quite well, except for a few
>> buttons.  But, then I don't need them anyway, so no loss.  The only
>> thing I don't like is the 1920x1200 res LCD.  I thought it would be
>> nice, but the resolution is too high for the 15.4" LCD.
>
> I have a 1920x1200 display on my HP.  Its main purpose is to make people 
> drool.  I actually like having the resolution that tiny.  I just wish that 
> they would have put more video ram in ti.  As for the buttons, there is a 
> mapping utility in X that I used to map them to applications in Gnome. 
> Worked pretty well.  (Still don't use them, but I could map them.)
>
>> Though my Dell laptop experience has been good, I'm going to be getting
>> a business grade HP or Lenovo laptop next time.  I'm leaning heavily
>> towards HP at the moment.
>
> The thing that convinced me to buy an HP was their 3 year warrenty.  They 
> will fix any damage to the laptop during that period.  I have had to use 
> it only twice, but it was well worth it.  (Once for a dead power brick. 
> Once when I got the PCMCIA ejector button caught on my laptop bag and 
> ripped it out.)  I would recommend buying an extra hard drive as well.  HP 
> will reformat and reinstall Windows on your machine every time it goes in 
> for warrenty.  (And not even an updated and patched copy, but the original 
> disk image!)
>
> As for device support...  I have gotten pretty much everything working on 
> my HP.  The Winmodem is an unknown, since I do not use it. (As well as 
> having a very good PCMCIA modem back when they made such things.)  There 
> is also a memory adapter that I just need firmware for.  Of course, I 
> bought it two and a half years ago, so it has had time for the drivers to 
> catch up with it...
>
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>From what peole are telling me on and off list, I will give Dell a miss. 
Still not shure about the Lenovo build quality, so the choice seems to be HP 
or Acer. Thanks for the advice and keep it comming as I will make my final 
decision tomorrow. The second hard drive tip is handy to know as I should 
think that most of the manufactures do somthing similar