Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:23:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:23:30 -0500 Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.25]:24619 "EHLO barry.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:23:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:32:23 -0600 From: Tim Walberg To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ? Message-ID: <20030116073223.A26416@mindspring.com> Reply-To: Tim Walberg Mail-Followup-To: Tim Walberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200301161100.45552.Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200301161100.45552.Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> from Nicolas Turro on 01/16/2003 04:00 X-PGP-RSA-Key: 0x0C8BA2FD at www.pgp.com (pgp.ai.mit.edu) X-PGP-RSA-Fingerprint: FC08 4026 8A62 C72F 90A9 FA33 6EEA 542D X-PGP-DSS-Key: 0x6DAB2566 at www.pgp.com (pgp.ai.mit.edu) X-PGP-DSS-Fingerprint: 4E1B CD33 46D0 F383 1579 1CCA C3E5 9C8F 6DAB 2566 X-URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~twalberg Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable www.sagernotebook.com I just recently purchased one of the 5600 series, and have had no issues with it. You don't have to pay the Microsoft tax, and it mostly just plain worked out of the box. The only challenges were finding drivers for the softmodem (which works fine once I got the drivers) so that I don't have to occupy the single PCMCIA slot with a modem, and getting accelerated X - I'm using closed source drivers from ATI for the Radeon 9000 chipset, at least until the Radeon work in the kernel (and in XFree86) catches up. X worked fine with just the default vesa driver for most purposes, but DVD playback and other video intensive things was far from ideal. The only thing I would have even changed in the design of the box is to put at least one external serial port on, because I use it frequently as a terminal, but I got a USB to serial adapter for $20 that fixed that quite readily... tw --=20 +--------------------------+------------------------------+ | Tim Walberg | twalberg@mindspring.com | | 830 Carriage Dr. | www.mindspring.com/~twalberg | | Algonquin, IL 60102 | | +--------------------------+------------------------------+ --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPia0ZcPlnI9tqyVmEQLN0QCg8OQ1McEt3jWRmYM8AOoB8cbkQDkAnjp5 cArre/x7yYWTJxBI2IP1PQAy =/zJ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/